The Essentials of Illustration / A Practical Guide to the Reproduction of Drawings & Photographs for the Use of Scientists & Others

by Thomas George Hill

Fig. 9. The Lesser Celandine (Ranunculus Ficaria).

By R. G. Hatton. (From Hatton's Craftsman's Handbook).

Fig. 10. The Lesser Celandine. After Fuchs.

(From Hatton's Craftsman's Handbook.)

An examination of figures 10 and 12 will shew that Fuchs* attained his object by simple outline drawings; he never employed local colour, and shading he used very sparsely indeed, and then only to give expression to the form of some thick part. Fuchs's celandine (Fig. 10) should be compared with the drawing of the same plant (Fig. 9) by R. G. Hatton.

*The methods followed by the illustrators of the Herbals may be conveniently studied in Hatton's "The Craftsman's Plant Book," London, 1909, and Arber's "Herbals," Cambridge, 1912.