Initial letter, with character portrait. Drawn by Mantelet, enlarged from a cut in a French periodical. A drawing might be made this size if intended to be reduced to the size of the cut opposite.
{216} the pictorial to printing are matters which we have allowed to force their way into almost every page, so a
Design by Georg Auriol.
summary of our method of teaching in this series would not be complete without a further word about the decoration of a page.
Let us next, therefore, consider the matter of periods or styles in illustrating. The initial letter designed by Auriol represents a modern style of design.
THE BATTLE OF THE SPHINX. Illustration from a French periodical. Crayon and silhouette effect.
{217} Twenty years ago the half-tone, as in this portrait, was unknown, and while the white and black goes back to the fifteenth century, the free distribution of the leaves is due to the French artists having studied Japanese designing.
The “Théatre du Chat Noir,” designed by the same artist, is also Japanesque in treatment. It may be profitably compared with the Grasset page. Auriol’s initial