Modern painters
Modern Painters is a 1907 art criticism volume by John Ruskin, published in London and New York, addressed to readers interested in aesthetics and painting. Its plates are numbered engravings of natural forms, including tree branches, coral-like growths, rocky ground, and mountain landscapes, drawn in fine pen and ink with dense hatching. A designer could take from them the use of hatched line to build texture, tone, and atmosphere without solid fills.
