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| The Gargoyle and His Quarry (1920) |
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| Guardians of the Spire (1921) |
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| The Thinker of Notre Dame Chapel (1923) |
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Gargoyle Etchings
John Taylor Arms was a printmaker with a Gothic Revivalist bent working in the first half of the 20th century. Starting in the 1920s he made a series of incredibly detailed etchings - some almost photorealist - of real-world gargoyles, a few of which are shown below:
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Very evocative.
ReplyDeleteAre these from a bigger collection somewhere?
ReplyDeleteI grabbed those images from this site, which is selling some of the original prints.
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