The Art of Decorative Design (page 1/2)

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Pictures and short extracts from The Art of Decorative Design, with an appendix, giving the hours of the day at which flowers open (the floral clock); the characteristic flowers of the months (both indigenous and cultivated), of all countries, and of the diversified soils, by D. Dresser, Ph.D., F.L.S., F.E.B.S.

The author’s sketches were engraved by Mr. W. R. Tymms, illustrations from whose own book can also be found here: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times.

Title: The Art of Decorative Design

Author: Dresser, C.

Published by: Day & Son, Lithographers to the Queen

City: London

Date: 1862

Total items: 6

Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.

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Plate XVIII.—Stylized Chinese Dragon

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Plate XIV—Chinese Dragon

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Front Cover, Art of Decorative Design

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Fig. 86.—Curves.

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Title Page

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The author’s sketches were engraved by Mr. W. R. Tymms, illustrations from whose own book can also be found here: The Art of Illuminating As Practised in Europe from the Earliest Times.

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