Art and architecture scrapbooks [graphic]

Hewitt, Sarah Cooper, collector, Hewitt, Eleanor G., collector · 1930 · 13 pictures

A scrapbook album of loose engravings and prints mounted on pages, compiled in 1930 by collectors Sarah Cooper Hewitt and Eleanor G. Hewitt for their art and architecture reference collection. The sheets show mostly Baroque-era mythological, allegorical and religious scenes, with figures in dense crowds, classical architecture and draped bodies rendered in fine line and tonal hatching. A designer could draw on their compositions, circular framing, and the dramatic arrangement of figures against clouds and columns.

Architecture · Engraving · Landscape architecture · Interior decoration · Silk-printing

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