Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period by F Knight

Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period by F Knight

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Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period by F Knight

When a Victorian silversmith, engraver, or artist wanted a first-class design, he went to Knight's Scroll Ornaments which remained throughout the nineteenth century as one of the foremost design sources available. F. Knight was a master of the Victorian engraving. His florid ornaments were to become the hallmark of Victorian design. He captured the Victorian love of the intricate, the fantastic, the extravagant with clean lines, shading, and three-dimensional effects.
Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period contains 71 metal-engraved designs: borders, frames, scrolls, cartouches, arches, corners, crests in varied sizes and styles. There are floral motifs: leaves, flowers, vines, wreaths―all in ever-spreading and overflowing swirls. There are interlocking patterns of circles, rococo extravaganzas, incredible curlicues. And there are also lions, serpents, cherubs, fruit, vultures, mythical beasts, along with grotesque ornaments and heads, a fox hunt, and man grappling with imaginary beasts. If you need intricate Victorian scrollwork for a poster or an ad, a frame with cupids for a book cover, or Victorian designs for bookplates or cards, you can find all of this material and much more in this rich collection overflowing with remarkable Victorian ornaments.
Dover republication of Knight's Scroll Ornaments, Designed for the use of Silversmiths, Chasers, Die-Sinkers, Modellers, &c., n.d., London.
Fauzia Knight is an independent scholar based in the UK and former Joint Director of the BA in Anthropology and Law at the London School of Ecomomics and Political Science.
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ISBN 13 9780486235967
ISBN 10 0486235963
Title Scroll Ornaments of the Early Victorian Period
Author F Knight
Series Dover Pictorial Archive
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Dover Publications Inc.
Year published 2003-03-28
Number of pages 48
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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