Modern painters
John Ruskin's Modern Painters, a 1907 London and New York edition of his art criticism for general readers and students of painting, issued by Routledge and E.P. Dutton. Its plates are grey halftone reproductions of landscape paintings and pen-and-ink sketches of clouds, foliage and rock, printed as rotated full-page images with plate captions. A designer could take from them the tonal range of atmospheric skies, sunlit mountains and misty water, and the loose ink marks used to study natural form.
