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Lessons on decorative design

Jackson, Frank G · 1888 · London : Chapman & Hall · 84 pictures

A drawing manual on ornament by Frank G. Jackson, published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1888 for art students and design-school classes. Line plates build patterns step by step: corner fillings, diapered grounds, running borders, scrolls and leaf sprays, with diagrams of bi-, tri- and multi-symmetry and radiation from a vertical line, usable as repeatable motifs and layout skeletons.

Decoration and ornament

Internet Archive · Getty Research Institute · Public Domain Mark 1.0