The Metropolitan Museum of Art / edited by L.P. di Cesnola ; illustrations by George Gibson
A guidebook to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, edited by Luigi Palma di Cesnola with illustrations by George Gibson, published by D. Appleton & Co. in 1882 for visitors to the museum's collection. The engravings show ancient vessels arranged as still lifes, with amphorae, jugs, bowls and a painted Greek vase set against plain backgrounds in fine hatched linework. A designer could take from them the clean contour drawing of ceramic and metal forms and the cross-hatched shading that suggests curved surfaces without colour.
