The Color Process  
Illustration of buildings  
   

 
Early Victorian Colors
 

Pre Civil War era

The Sherwin Williams company published a large folio size sheet as an advertisement and color guide. It shows a pre Civil War Italianate style house in period colors. A color bar at the bottom of the sheet provides color matching data. [note: the colors shown in this scanned image are not accurate!]

 

   

Click here to see how these historic colors are translated into readily available colors for your house.