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[Design tracings

1875 · n.p. · 140 pictures

A working album of 266 pen-and-pencil design tracings on tissue and oiled paper, made anonymously around 1875 and held by the Clark Art Institute Library. Outlines only — flowering sprigs, acanthus scrolls, rosettes and interlaced leaf fields — drawn in thin ink on stained, torn sheets, giving designers clean repeat motifs plus ready-made paper texture and edge damage.

Design · Decoration and ornament

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