Designs with more than a whiff of Jugendstil and Art Nouveau floating around, tricked out in black and white from Christopher Dresser’s “Principles of Decorative Design,” published in London in 1870. Not Victorian looking at all.

Art book/folio, Aspirational decor from folios and magazines. 1 Minute
Figure 23, Page 29.
Figure 23, Page 29. Collection of the Ontario College of Art & Design. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dresuoft/page/29
Figure 22, page 28.
Figure 22, page 28. Collection of the Ontario College of Art & Design. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dresuoft/page/28
Figure 20, page 27.
Figure 20, page 27. Collection of the Ontario College of Art & Design. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dresuoft/page/27
Figure 56, page 80.
Figure 56, page 80. Collection of the Ontario College of Art & Design. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dresuoft/page/80 Collection of the Ontario College of Art & Design. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dresuoft/page/80
Figures 181 and 182, page 156.
Figures 181 and 182, page 156. Collection of the Ontario College of Art & Design. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dresuoft/page/156
Figure 61, page 86.
Figure 61, page 86. Collection of the Ontario College of Art & Design. In the public domain. via https://archive.org/details/principlesofdeco00dresuoft/page/86

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On a voyage to see how much mileage I can get from the creative ability and eye for images that my family thought was useless. On line art curator, fiction writer and now blogger. Historian's daughter. Follow me . . .even I have no idea where I'm going next.

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