Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 40
study. Fig. 19 is a Gothic foli-ated face ; but here we havefeatures which are much toonaturalistic. We have, in-deed, only a hideous humanface with a marginal ex-crescence of leafage. Thisis a type to be avoided; itis not droll, nor quaint ; butis simply unpleasant to lookupon. Fig. 20 is a fish,… … Fig. 20. It ids PRINCIPLES 01 DESIGN. grotesque than I otherwise could, 1 have sketched one or two original illustrations—Tig-. 21 being1 suggestive of a face, Fig. 22 of a skeleton (old bogev), and Fig. 28of an impossible animal. They are inten-tionally far from imitative. If naturalisticsome…
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