Nineteenth century art
Nineteenth century art by D. S. MacColl, published in Glasgow by J. Maclehose & Sons in 1902, a survey of modern painting drawn partly from the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition and aimed at art readers. Its plates are halftone reproductions of paintings: a dark full-length standing figure in a long skirt, a Dutch-style canal with a plank bridge and cottages, a seated young woman in a white collar sewing, and a cottage interior with an old man, a girl and a child by a window. A designer might take the tonal, low-key light and the muted, dark-ground compositions as a model for moody portraiture and interiors.
