850 Ornamental Designs

by William Bell Scott

An amazingly comprehensive 19th-century collection offers an array of elegant, finely detailedblack-and-white designs gleaned from the art and decorative traditions of several countries and historical eras. Images include scrolls, shields, designs drawn from Italianate-style architecture, Moorish decorations from the Alhambra, Louis Quatorze furniture, and much more.

96 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 1998

About the author

William Bell Scott was a Scottish artist in oils and watercolour and sometimes printmaking. He was also a poet and art teacher, and his posthumously published reminiscences give a chatty and often vivid picture of life in the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites; he was especially close to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.