From Holbein to Whistler, notes on drawing and engraving, / by Alfred Mansfield Brooks.
This is a 1920 art-historical survey by Alfred Mansfield Brooks, published by Yale University Press in New Haven, written for students and collectors of drawing and engraving. The pictures are reproductions of old prints: a sketchy woodcut-like scene of a kneeling woman beside a reclining figure in a forest, a dense architectural woodcut of a town street with a nativity-like group, and two crowded altarpiece-style compositions of the Virgin enthroned among angels and kneeling kings. A designer could draw on their dense hatching, crowded frames of figures, and arched compositions for period-style layouts.
