Colouring Collection

Cattleya Trianae Mrs Phillips, also known as Flor de Mayo (May Flower) or Christmas Orchid (Orchidaceae family), with pink, purple and yellow colouring

Gordon Setter (Shaw)
A Gordon setter in the field, with its classic black and tan colouring

First World War. Big Bertha M42
WORLD WAR (1914-1918). BIG BERTHA M42. German gun used to bombard Paris from over 100 km. away in 1918. Its gauge was 210 mm. and was 34 m. long

Iris Bruno (Tall Bearded Iris), a flowering perennial of the Iridaceae family, with gold, purple and brown colouring. A close-up of the head in full flower

Title page design, For Victory Paint Book, WW2
Title page design, For Victory Paint Book, with Allied flags and a V sign, used as a propaganda symbol for Victory during the Second World War. Date: 1940s

V For Victory Paint Book
An illustrated front cover for a WW2 children's colouring book, For Victory Paint Book. The image simply shows a large letter V with musical notes and national flags. Date: circa 1940s

WW2 British Army Soldier With Bayonet
An illustrated front cover of a WW2 children's colouring in ABC book, The Defence ABC Painting Book, by John Hassall. The image portrays a British WW2 soldier equipped with his bayonet rifle

Lever Brothers Twink Advertisement
An illustrated advertisement for Lever Brothers Limited, promoting Twink, a product which both cleans and dyes materials simultaneously

Black Ink
A minimalistic still life painting of a yellow colouring pencil placed beside a black ink pot on a purple background. Date: circa 1916

Rowley Hall Chinese Bedroom
An illustration showing a Chinese bedroom of Rowley Hall, Staffordshire. This space is heavily themed with oriental colouring, expressed through the burnished gold background of the room

Manufacture of Ostrich Feathers - Changing Hue 1907
The feathers were taken out of bleaching and dyed to show their new appearance. The white ones are bewildering in their snowy whiteness and the coloured have quite forgotten their former dinginess

De Havilland Hydromatic Airscrew Aircraft Engine
Diagram of De Havilland Hydromatic Airscrew Aircraft Engine, Feathering Date: 1942

Diagram of De Havilland Hydromatic Airscrew Aircraft Engine, Unfeathering Date: 1942

Revelations from the Riviera -What the smartest
Revelations from the Riviera (1927) - What the smartest women wear at Monte Carlo is prophetic of what will be worn in London and Paris in the subsequent seasons

Colouring page, For Victory Paint Book, WW2
Colouring page, For Victory Paint Book, with a British flag and a little boy in John Bull costume. Date: 1940s

Frontispiece design, For Victory Paint Book, WW2
Frontispiece design, For Victory Paint Book, with the coats of arms of Allied countries during the Second World War -- Do Not Despair, written by Winston Churchill. Date: 1940s

Front cover design, For Victory Paint Book, WW2
Front cover design, For Victory Paint Book, with Allied flags, a V sign, and the first four notes of Beethovens Fifth Symphony, used as a propaganda symbol for Victory during the Second World War

Manufacturing Sevres porcelain
A very beautifully shot postcard photograph showing the colouring workshop (preparing the background colours) for Sevres porcelain, particularly the famous Sevres Blue - Sevres Factory, France

Fourteen colour plates are used to make the engraving for the special supplements, here you can see the different print machines used for each colour that is done separately. Date: 1881

Advert for Unwin & Albert womens coiffure 1908 Advert for Unwin & Albert womens
Ladies hairdressers in Regent Street, transforming your hair in anyway possible. Date: 1908

Indigo manufactory in India
An indigo manufactory in India, processing dyestuff from the indigofera plant. Date: circa 1770

Pigeons - A Red Helmet, Black Lahore and Yellow Spot
A portrait of three breeds of fancy pigeon illustrated inside their coop. The plain-headed Red Helmet presents its bicoloured plumage formation

Pigeons - Varieties of Ice Pigeons, Fancy Breed
An Ural, Silver, Siberian and Blue Ice Pigeons are seen here illustrated inside a pigeon coop, as known as a loft. The Ice Pigeon is a domesticated and fancy breed of pigeon

Little girl with paintbox on a cutout Christmas card
Little girl with a paintbox on a cutout Christmas card, with the greeting partly coloured in. Date: circa 1890s

Lavoisier, Antoine Laurent (Paris, 1743-1794). French chemist.. Established the composition of the water and the basis of bioenergetics

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
Marcuse, Herbert (Berlin, 1898, Starnberg, 1979). German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School

Pigeons - A Portrait of Three Magies, German Toy Breed
Three Magpies standing together in an outdoor scenery, and a church pictured in the background. The illustrated magpies are of the German variety and a breed of German Toy pigeon

Pigeons - Varieties of Swallows, German Toy Breed
A portrait of four varieties of Swallows. The yellow, black, red and blue Swallows are a breed of German Toy pigeons. The Swallows in the outdoor scenery are also illustrated in such a way to present

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