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Anastatic Drawing Society, Ashby-de-la-Zouch · 1855 · [Ashby-de-la-Zouch] · 27 pictures

A set of pen-and-ink architectural drawings published around 1855 at Ashby-de-la-Zouch by the Anastatic Drawing Society, a Leicestershire group that reproduced sketches by its members. The pages show buildings and village scenes drawn in loose line and hatching, and the plates are printed sideways on the page. A designer could take from them the quick, sketchy linework of a Victorian amateur topographer, useful for loose architectural ink textures and hand-drawn landscape backgrounds.

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