More than just a five-digit grasping appendage, the extraordinary human hand is capable of a virtually infinite range of expression. Here are over 1,100 images of hands, specially assembled by a noted graphic designer in response to the growing demand for inexpensive and royalty-free art depicting hands. Chosen for diversity and style as well as usability, these images were carefully culled from thousands of pages of nineteenth-century European and American books and periodicals, some of them very rare. Many of the images represent the height of the wood engraver's art -- and as artists...
More than just a five-digit grasping appendage, the extraordinary human hand is capable of a virtually infinite range of expression. Here are over ...
This extraordinary collection of engravings provides designers and commercial artists with a magnificent sourcebook of Victorian-era plant images all royalty-free. Included are 2,400 crisply detailed illustrations of hundreds of plants from lilies, lichens, mushrooms and marigolds, to poppies, palms, maples, and mosses. Selected from rare publications dating from the 1840s to the turn of the century, the illustrations encompass a wide range of plant species and classifications: garden flowers, cactuses, bromeliads, ferns, deciduous trees, evergreens, grasses, legumes, orchids, nightshades,...
This extraordinary collection of engravings provides designers and commercial artists with a magnificent sourcebook of Victorian-era plant images all ...
