3200 Old-time Cuts and Ornaments (Dover Pictorial Archive) - Softcover

Cirker, Blanche

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486417328 ISBN 13: 9780486417325

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc, 2001

Synopsis

Royalty-free illustrations from 1909 French typography foundry catalog: more than 100 plates, over 3,200 pictures and motifs, including fruits, flowers, plants, and trees; animals; stray eyes and ears; playing cards; angels, saints, and religious motifs; musical instruments; carriages and sailing vessels; sporting events; plus ornamental borders, mortised cuts, banners, wreaths, and other line art.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

An ideal sourcebook for artists and designers, this collection comprises a cornucopia of appealing royalty-free designs, illustrations, and embellishments, brought together from a rare catalog published by a noted French typography foundry at the turn of the last century. More than 100 of the best plates from that catalog--containing over 3,200 clear, detailed illustrations and covering an enormous range of subjects--have been painstakingly reproduced in this volume.
Among the eye-catching spot illustrations and motifs included here are fruits, flowers, plants, and trees; animals; playing cards; angels, saints, and religious motifs; musical instruments; carriages and sailing vessels; sporting events; household furnishings and equipment; hats, shoes, parasols, and other clothing items; military figures in full garb; and much more. Here also are ornamental borders, elaborate mortised cuts, banners, wreaths, and a host of other line art ideal for framing, embellishing, or calling attention to printed matter.
This comprehensive selection of charming cuts from a bygone era will provide artists and illustrators with a nearly inexhaustible supply of royalty-free graphics awash in period ambience--perfect for use in catalogs, brochures, newsletters, and a host of other artistic and print projects.
Dover (2001) original selection of 107 plates from Allainguillaume, J. Saling & Cie.: Cliches Typographiques, Paris, ca. 1909.

Synopsis:

This selection of over 100 plates from a rare turn-of-the-century catalog provides graphic designers, artists, and craftspeople with a wealth of eye-catching spot illustrations and motifs. Originally compiled by a noted French typography foundry, this versatile archive includes over 3,200 clear, detailed illustrations of an enormous range of subjects: fruits, flowers, plants and trees; musical instruments, religious figures, carriages and sailing vessels, sporting events, farm animals and equipment, household furnishings, hats, shoes, parasols and other clothing items; military figures in full garb, and much more. Here also are ornamental borders, elaborate mortised cuts, banners, wreaths, and a host of other line art ideal for framing, embellishing, or calling attention to printed matter. Painstakingly reproduced here, these charming, copyright-free cuts from a bygone era will provide artists and illustrators with a nearly inexhaustible supply of copyright-free graphics awash in period ambience.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0486417328
• ISBN 13: 9780486417325
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112