[Drawings]

Anastatic Drawing Society, Ashby-de-la-Zouch · 1861 · [Ashby-de-la-Zouch] · 18 pictures

A set of pen and pencil drawings issued in 1861 by the Anastatic Drawing Society of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, a provincial English group reproducing hand-made sketches of local antiquities. The first plates show castle ruins and towers among trees, drawn in dense hatched ink, while the last plate shows architectural details of a church doorway and carved stonework laid out as measured elevations. A designer could take from them the loose, scratchy hatching of picturesque landscape sketching beside the flat, numbered plan-and-section layout used for building records.

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