Drawing & engraving : a brief exposition of technical principles & practice (1892)
Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · London ; Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 60
ce in ornament might be expected to draw it. In the Bayeux tapestry William of Normandy 1 Sometimes not even so much as that. In Byzantine drawingthe costume is represented as if standing by its own stiffness, with ahuman head and hands somehow fastened to it. 32 DRAWING AXD ENGRAVING and his… … William the Conqueror and his Knights (from the Bayeux tapestry). outline enclosing the rings, which are drawn purelyon the principles of ornament. In the long centuries of mediaeval design therewas great improvement in grace and elegance ofline (compare good designs of the thirteenth centurywith…
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