The Isle of Wight
A late nineteenth-century London and New York travel volume on the Isle of Wight by C. J. Cornish, published by Seeley and Macmillan in 1895, with plates reproduced from pen, pencil and etched drawings of island scenes. The pictures are mostly monochrome landscapes: a harbour view with shipping and waterside buildings, a wooded cliff path, a churchyard with leaning headstones and a small figure, and a tall cliff face. A designer could draw on their loose, hatched line work and tonal layering for hand-drawn landscape backgrounds.
