Elementi del disegno e della pittura
An Italian-language drawing manual by John Ruskin, adapted by E. Nicolello and published in Turin in 1898 by Fratelli Bocca, aimed at students learning to draw and paint from nature. Its pictures are small black-and-white plant studies: a willow-like branch with a rough trunk, a sprig of leaves with fine stems, a tufted fern-like spray, and a feathery leafed branch labelled Fig. 26. A designer might take from them the habit of building foliage from loose hatched masses and simple leaf shapes rather than outlining every leaf.
