Neoclassical Ornamental Designs (Dover Pictorial Archive) - Softcover

Over 1,000 fine-line renderings with timeless elegance and classical ambience, reproduced from a rare 19th-century portfolio. Choose from borders, corners, vignettes, cartouches, busts, and other royalty-free designs depicting gods and goddesses, mythical animals, floral and foliate motifs, angels and cherubs, figures from classical mythology, and much more.

Graphic artists, illustrators, desktop publishers?anyone in search of elegant classical ornament?will find a wealth of usable material in this handy resource, reproduced from rare 19th-century portfolios.
Readers can choose from borders, corners, vignettes, cartouches, busts, ornamental designs, and many other configurations depicting gods and goddesses, mythical animals, floral and foliate motifs, urns, chariots, helmets, angels and cherubs, columns, figures from classical mythology, and more?all in fine-line renderings that convey a sense of timeless elegance and classical ambience.
Ideal for adding pictorial interest to book and magazine illustrations, advertisements, brochures, and many other projects, these designs comprise an easy-to-use, copyright-free reference that belongs at the fingertips of anyone wishing to create eye-catching graphics with a classical touch.
Unabridged Dover (1996) republication of Selection of Ornaments in Forty Pages for the Use of Sculptors, Painters, Carvers, Modellers, Chasers, Embossers, published in three parts of 40 plates each by R. Ackermann, London, 1817–1819.