Etchings Of Rustic Figures For The Embellishment Of Landscape
Etchings of Rustic Figures for the Embellishment of Landscape is a 1815 set of plates by William Henry Pyne, held by Heidelberg University Library, meant for artists who needed country people to populate their scenes. The pages are grids of small studies of peasants, laborers, and travellers in ink-like line, each figure isolated on blank paper. A designer could draw on them for quick staffage: poses of figures carrying loads, sitting, or working at tasks, and figures placed at a range of scales within a landscape.
