Food and Drink (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Food and Drink (Dover Pictorial Archive)

Jim Harter

Language: English

Pages: 144

ISBN: 0486238164

Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub


This monumental collection contains over 350 royalty-free illustrations of every conceivable activity concerned with the preparation and consumption of food and drink. Jim Harter, well-known commercial designer and collagist, has selected the most versatile and eye-catching material, mainly from rare nineteenth-century sources. These fine line drawings, reproduced sharply and clearly, comprise the most extensive and economical source of design material available.
From the dining car of the Orient Express to the kitchen of an average family breakfasting at home, exotic and ordinary dining is shown in countries all over the world. There are rajahs dining in their palaces, cavemen squatting and eating with their hands, Romans feasting, wealthy families dining in elegant restaurants, public kitchens, servants, children eating, court scenes, Christmas dinners, dinner parties, individuals dining, banquets and cooks preparing meals, camping, and shopping.
Not only are there activity scenes but also dozens of individual illustrations depict food, servers, and cooking utensils. A sampling includes:

Exotic cakes and desserts, fish, melons, oranges, berries, grapes, artichokes, rhubarb, leeks, pumpkins, pigs, and turkeys
Glassware, tea sets, decanters, mugs, pitchers, baskets, bowls, urns, flatware, candlesticks, servers, ladles, and rolling pins
The wide scope of the book includes large illustrations as well as headings and vignettes suitable for wine lists, menus, cartes du jour, invitations, and many other uses. These royalty-free illustrations form a unique sourcebook — virtually impossible to duplicate — that can complement practically any point of reference on the subject of food and drink. Clearly reproduced from rare periodicals on high-quality stock, these pictures offer a limitless array of ideas for artists and designers of greeting cards, packaging, periodicals, and cookbooks, as well as collagists and decoupeurs.

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sometimes with an impressionistic feeling. By the mid-1880s the means had become available for reproducing photographs as halftone illustrations, but they were both crude and expensive. It was not until the 1890s that the art of wood engraving began to be superseded by the new process. Ironically, now that the technique of the wood engraving has been largely lost, the popularity of these illustrations is reviving. Artists find the material widely adaptable to projects such as collage. Graphic

ceremonial framework.

ceremonial framework.

Dover. (0-486-45602-1) RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE CEILING MASTERPIECES, Dover. (0-486-46529-2) HISTORIC ORNAMENT AND DESIGN IN FULL COLOR: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE RENAISSANCE, Edited by Giulio Ferrari. (0-486-45275-1) 150 FULL-COLOR ART NOUVEAU PATTERNS AND DESIGNS, Friedrich Wolfrum and Co. (0-486-44511-9) TREASURY OF FLOWER DESIGNS FOR ARTISTS, EMBROIDERERS AND CRAFTSMEN, Susan Gaber. (0-486-24096-7) SILHOUETTES: A PICTORIAL ARCHIVE OF VARIED ILLUSTRATIONS, Edited by Carol Belanger Grafton.

MONTGOMERY WARD CATALOGUE OF 1895, Montgomery Ward & Co. (0-486-22377-9) THOMAS NAST’S CHRISTMAS DRAWINGS, Thomas Nast. (0-486-23660-9) 5000 DECORATIVE MONOGRAMS FOR ARTISTS AND CRAFTSPEOPLE, Edited by J. O’Kane. (0-486-42979-2) FRENCH DECORATIVE DESIGNS, P. Planat. (0-486-45228-X) RACINET’S HISTORIC ORNAMENT IN FULL COLOR, Auguste Racinet. (0-486-25787-8) 2,286 TRADITIONAL STENCIL DESIGNS, H. Roessing. (0-486-26845-4) TREASURY OF BIBLE ILLUSTRATIONS: OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, Julius Schnorr

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