Old-Time Men and Women Vignettes in Full Color
Автор:
Carol Belanger Grafton, 24 стр., издатель:
"Dover Publications", ISBN:
0-486-41226-1
This dazzling collection of full-color illustrations, culled from rare and expensive antique chromolithographs, features a wide variety of nostalgic illustrations. Lovely mementos of the Victorian era, when images of innocence, sentimentality, and exotica embellished calendars, cigar boxes, music sheet covers, and countless other items, more than 300 vintage vignettes depict men and women from varied historical periods and cultures. Here are dowagers and debutantes, medieval monarchs and Indian princesses, soldiers, sailors, and mandarins; and gentlemen of every description sporting top hats, powdered wigs, ornamented turbans, hats with feathers, and other regalia. Rich in authentic period flavor, these vivid, copyright-free images can be easily scanned into a computer, or used in traditional cut-and-paste projects. They will not only add an appealing touch to graphic assignments, but will also provide an inexhaustible source of material for collagists, decoupeurs, and...
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