Drawings of Sir E. J. Poynter
A 1905 London and New York monograph by Malcolm Bell on the drawings of the painter Sir Edward John Poynter, issued as a collection of plates for an art-loving public. The pictures are reproductions of academic figure studies in charcoal, chalk and pencil, several showing nude figures in poses, some rotated on the page, with captions naming studies for finished paintings such as Diadumene and Atalanta. A designer could take from them the economy of tonal chalk modelling on toned paper and the dynamic foreshortening of limbs in action.
