Author: Frederick Knight
Publisher:
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This compilation of a master engraver's designs presents a versatile array of borders, frames, scrolls, cartouches, arches, corners, and crests, in motifs featuring floral, animal, fantasy, and rococo patterns.
Author: Karl Klimsch
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 1977-06-01
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13: 0486234908
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Do you want intricate and convoluted scrollwork for a poster or newspaper ad? Are you looking for an ornate floral design for your decoupage? Are you into collage or boxes filled with mementos from the recent, florid past? Or do you want to make Victorian greeting cards or bookplates like those you found in your great-grandfather's books? You'll find designs for these and a multitude of other imaginative projects in this rich and impressive collection overflowing with remarkable Victorian ornament. Klimsch's exceptional quality of rendering these designs, his use of clean lines, shading, and three-dimensional effects in the most complex ornaments, is truly remarkable. He captures the Victorian love of the fantastic and exotic, of a riotous imagination that is ultimately controlled and ordered. These examples of Victorian ornamentation are among the very best that can be found today. Florid Victorian Ornament contains more than 700 metal-engraved designs on 102 plates: borders, frames, corners, leaves, scrollwork, strapwork, rosettes, escutcheons, and cartouches in varied sizes and styles. There are floral motifs: leaves, flowers, vines, wreaths, and vases filled with incredibly ornate, ever-spreading, ever-germinating greenery. There are intricate geometric patterns: Greek frets, interlocking circles, squares, triangles, rectangles, rococo extravagances, curlicues beyond description. And there are the perennial lions, swans, serpents, heads, hats, helmets, vegetables, innocent waifs, lovers, and healthy, overripe women. From this vivid collection commercial artists, craftspeople, and designers will find numerous designs they can readily use in advertising and graphics work or for their own personal enjoyment. And if you are a lover of Victoriana, grab this book and revel in excess.
Author: F. Knight
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-01-23
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 0486155749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This lavish collection of royalty-free engravings by the celebrated 19th-century artist F. Knight — reproduced directly from a rare original edition — contains elaborate wall murals with trompe-l’oeil effects; scenes of hunters, flanked by mythological figures; idealized damsels in rustic settings; and numerous other florid motifs.
Author: Syracuse Ornamental Co.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-08-29
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 0486155412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hundreds of beautiful copyright-free line illustrations of intricately carved furniture trimmings. Delicate floral wreaths, scrolls, more.
Author: George Phillips
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 98
ISBN-13: 0486489760
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in the early Victorian era, this decorativetour de force marks the shift of popular taste from neoclassicism,foreshadowing the development of Art Nouveau.Including examples of Japanese and Hindustani styles, aneclectic assembly of 47 engraved plates features curves thatextend beyond mere circular patterns into increasingly complexornaments. CD-ROM includes JPEGs of all the images.Reprint of the Shaw and Sons, London, 1839 edition
Author: Franoise Stella
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 1987-01-01
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 0486253783
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Extravagant in concept, exuberant in spirit, elaborate in design, Baroque art and architecture flourished in 17th-century Europe. These engravings by a noted French artist perfectly embody the Baroque sensibility through architectural ornaments, decorative motifs, lush florals and foliates, borders, and other striking design elements. 46 illustrations.
Author: Richard C. Rattenbury
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2014-10-22
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0806147792
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The history of American firearms is inseparable from the history of the United States, for firearms have played crucial roles in the nation’s founding, westward expansion, and industrial, economic, and cultural development. This history unfolds in compelling words and images in A Legacy in Arms, a volume that draws upon the collections of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City to trace the business and art of gun making from the early national period to the turn of the twentieth century. With more than 200 images—almost all in full color—A Legacy in Arms not only documents the inspiration and innovation of arms makers from individual artisans to mass producers, but also describes the development of decorative expression in the gun maker’s art. In an account both entertaining and enlightening, Richard C. Rattenbury details the development of commercial arms making, from the genesis of the Kentucky rifle to the arms of such iconic manufacturers as Colt, Remington, Smith & Wesson, Sharps, Marlin, and Winchester. Into this narrative he weaves the particulars of design evolution and the impact of mass production via the “American System.” The accompanying photographs and illustrations stand as eloquent testimony to the range and richness of the gun maker's craft—and its rightful place in the story of American industry and culture.
Author: Wilhelm Steinhauser
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-03-05
Total Pages: 50
ISBN-13: 048616425X
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