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Posted By: davidcycleback

As noted, the Harper's Woodcuts were originally black and white though were sometimes later hand colored.

The is a rule of thumb for identifying Harper's Woodcut hand colored in modern times (for example, so as to consign to a big auction house). If the colors are subtle and and light and pastel, the rule of thumb is the coloring is modern ... We modern folk have quaint ideas about Victorian taste, but in Victorian times the favored colors for something would have been bright and gaudy and loud.