A study of the artist's way of working in the various handicrafts and arts of design
A 1905 New York survey of decorative arts and design by art critic Russell Sturgis, drawn from the Getty Research Institute and aimed at students and practising artists. The plates are halftone photographs of historic objects: a rotated page showing a Paris Exhibition 1900 painting of a chariot scene, a Roman-style spiral and disc mosaic floor, a stone moulding of scrolled foliage over a geometric band, and a bronze relief panel of figures in an arched interior, useful for studying pattern, border design and narrative composition.
