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Anastatic Drawing Society, Ashby-de-la-Zouch · 1857 · [Ashby-de-la-Zouch] · 26 pictures

An anastatic reproduction of pen-and-ink drawings issued in 1857 by the Anastatic Drawing Society of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a small English provincial group, with no clear purpose stated beyond showing its members' sketches of local buildings. The plates are rotated on the page and show castles, ruins, gatehouses and carved stonework rendered in loose, hatched line. A designer might take their sketchy hatching and architectural studies as a model for quick hand-drawn architecture or ruin motifs.

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