Fantastic Ornament, Series Two: 118 Designs and Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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Amazon Customer said Hightly Recommend. Dover does a great job on their art books. Great reference material for artists and teachers.. DmnL said Better than the series one book.. Better selection of designs than the series 1 book with 110 designs. It even includes a whole alphabet template. Not a bad buy.. "Not Recommended" according to W. Coffey. Dark photos, poor sub par quality. Cannot recommend, you can find better photos on google image search.

Created as embellishments for walls, arms and armor, and everyday objects, these designs remain eminently useful for graphic and decorative purposes.Professional and amateur artists and designers as well as cardmakers and scrapbookers will find this compilation a practical resource of versatile and royalty-free art. This volume is the successor to Dover Publications' Fantastic Ornament, another modern reprint of a rare nineteenth-century publication.. The extravagant images are based on a wide variety of historical examples that date back as far as the 1500s and include imaginative renderings by Watteau and Dürer. Abounding in cherubs, nymphs, soldiers, kings, dragons, and other flamboyant motifs, this compilation of ornamental designs was originally published in Paris during the 1840s