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Gallery: Line-drawings
James Stevens Curl has produced a great many line-drawings in pencil and pen-and-ink for various purposes, including illustrations for books (e.g. his own Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture [2006]) and papers. Some are records of measured surveys of buildings, etc., some are satirical, some are studies of historical subjects, and others are original designs. Many are simple black-and-white line-drawings, but on occasion he introduces sparing use of water-colour or gouache to heighten effects.
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![Knell for the Past, and Vision of a Barbarous Present and Future: from a drawing by James Stevens Curl, 2005 (with respectful apologies to Alfred Rethel [1816-59]).](images/drawing-dwg-knell-past-sm.jpg)
Knell for the Past, and Vision of a Barbarous Present and Future:
from a drawing by James Stevens Curl, 2005 (with respectful apologies to Alfred Rethel [1816-59]).
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Southwell Schools, Downpatrick, County Down, 1733, Architect unknown:
from a drawing by James Stevens Curl, 1957.
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They are Weighed in the Balance and found Wanting:
from a drawing by James Stevens Curl, 2004 (with respectful apologies to Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin [1812-52]).
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Romanesque and Gothic Studies:
from a drawing by James Stevens Curl, 1956.
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pilaster (a) Classical pilaster (left) with flutes and cabling, and (right) plain shaft, both with Attic base; (b) French sixteenth-century example with arabesque panel on shaft; (c) Jacobean example from Astbury Church, Cheshire. |
Viking ornament (left) Carving, south door, Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire, showing twelfth-century Ringerike designs. (right) Eleventh-century carved portal, Urnes Church, Norway. |
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![Knell for the Past, and Vision of a Barbarous Present and Future: from a drawing by James Stevens Curl, 2005 (with respectful apologies to Alfred Rethel [1816-59]).](images/drawing-dwg-knell-past-lg.jpg)
