Animals: 1,419 Copyright-Free Illustrations of Mammals, Birds, Fish, Insects, etc (Dover Pictorial Archive)

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Contemporary artists and designers are finding the wood engraving one of the highly desirable sources of illustration for lots of design purposes. Simple and bold or capable of the most exquisite effects of tonal gradation, this elegant black-and-white artwork sustains no loss in reproduction and is an ideal complement to typography.
1,419 clear wood engravings present, in natural, lifelike poses, over 1,000 species of animals. Included are numerous versions of the familiar animals most wanted and used by commercial artists and craftsmen. Arranged in keeping with the following seven categories, the illustrations portray mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, and other invertebrates.
Selected for their visual affect and usability by artist-collagist Jim Harter, these illustrations form one of the extensive, copyright-free pictorial sourcebooks of animals ever assembled for the specific use of illustrators, graphic designers, craftspeople, decoupeurs, and collagists. Captions give modern common-name identifications, and a thorough index provides immediate get entry to to individual animal pictures. On account of the accuracy and detail of many of the renderings, naturalists will also enjoy browsing through this volume and the usage of it for illustrative purposes.
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