Fantastic Beasts of the Nineteenth Century: Dragons, Birds, and Incredible Sea Creatures (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
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Rating | : | 4.79 (618 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0486819566 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2013-08-03 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Fanciful creatures slither, swim, and soar through this full-color adaptation of a rare 19th-century German portfolio. Designers, artists, and crafters will appreciate Seder's imaginative works and their distinctive combination of outstanding designs with keen observations of nature.. The colorful images include exotic birds and fishes, dramatic reptiles and amphibians, and scores of ferocious dragons. This new layout of a hard-to-find antique volume presents enlargements of the original illustrations that offer magnified details of stylized feathers, fins, scales, and other fantastic features. The tremendous variety of these images makes this volume a perfect resource for all manner of graphics and art reference.This meticulously reproduced collection of fanciful creatures represent
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