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Fantastic Ornaments (Dover Pictorial Archive)
£6.50
Swirling with gargoyles, devils, dragons, griffins, and other images that haunt both dreams and nightmares, this otherworldly assortment features illustrations from a rare 19th-century volume. Images include cartouches, frames, doors, trophies, cabinets, friezes for textiles and wallpaper, decorative scutcheons, stone balustrades, arabesques, roof cornices, and much more.
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Additional information
| Publisher | Dover Publications Inc. (30 Mar. 2007) |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 64 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0486452298 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0486452296 |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.94 cm |
by Ricardo Coelho
Considering the price and the size of the book, the content is actualy very inspiring.
All the book is in black and white but, in this case, you don’t actualy need color pictures.
Good buy.
by anonymous
An absolute must for everyone that is arty! I very much love this book. It is printed on nice paper, the graphics are clear and very very interesting. Book arrived quick enough.
by Purple
Bought as a reference for my own drawing and tattooing I found this book to have lots of useful flowing designs that I can easily incorporate into many pieces. Very useful I recommend buying it. Also the fact that the images are line drawings leaves the rest to your own imagination to continue once you find the flow you are looking for.
by Blues Review
This is a reprint of Leinard’s Specimens of Decoration and Ornamentation 1883. Mostly patterns from Rococo and Baroque panels. Fantastic? Not really.
by Laurel
Love all these books and they are a great resource for me as a designer. Beautiful clear examples of ornament.
by Average Consumer
Almost, it is a great book however each image has been scaled down so it’s hard to see the line work of which each image is comprised. Ideally one would be able to see each stroke, with images reproduced 1:1.
by Jotter
Clear simplistic drawings Amazing horrors and ideas of fearsome creatures.
The book arrived on time in fact it arrived with 3 others in a matter of hours!!!!
Thank you kept me occupied for hours.
by mischief-moon
i was intrgued to find thst some of the cofigurations match the borders of some my tattoos .now my bro has borrowed the book to use in the wood craft with his sons