An introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art
A 1918 London survey of Chinese painting by the sinologist Herbert Allen Giles, published by B. Quaritch and held by the Getty Research Institute, written as an introduction to the history of Chinese pictorial art for general readers. The plates are reproductions of traditional ink and scroll paintings, shown as halftone photographs. A designer can take from them the spare composition of figures set in open space, with mist-filled landscape and a single standing figure against an empty ground.
