Plate lx (60): “chinese nº 2” from owen jones, the grammar of ornament, folio edition, london: bernard quaritch 1868, scanned from a newer reprint of the book. Hint: this plate is numbered “lx” at the left, but “xl” at the right side; the correct number is “lx” (60). That this digital image is scanned from a reprint of jones’ book, is not a copyright problem, because the original book is in public domain (jones died in 1874), and so both the reproduction in the reprint and this digital image are in public domain, too. But it is some problem for the image quality: the offset reprint has rasterized the original chromolithographic print, and may have introduced colour changes, too. So a high-quality scan from a good copy of the original 1868 publication would be much better, and very welcome …. Date: 1868.
Loading...
