The Art Of Landscape Painting In Water Colours
A landscape watercolour instruction manual by Thomas Leeson Rowbotham, published in 1852 and drawn from the Heidelberg University Library copy, aimed at amateur painters learning the craft. The two pictures are small line drawings of a winged lion-like creature with a curling serpentine tail, one printed on a tinted ground and one on plain paper, showing decorative heraldic-style figures. A designer might take from them the scroll-tailed, billowing-mane beast as a compact emblem motif, reproducible at small scale with simple hatched contours.
