Tattoo artist's pattern book.

Description

Title: Tattoo artist's pattern book.
Contributor: Davis, C. B.
Published / Created: circa 1915
Abstract: A volume containing 145 pattern drawings for tattoos, including images of men, women, serpents, dragons, mottoes, birds, butterflies, fish, and patriotic figures for the United States and Great Britain, circa 1915. Four of the drawings are on translucent paper that is mounted in the volume. The majority of the drawings are ink line drawings, while two drawings are colored with crayon and depict dragons, one in a flight with an eagle. The author of the volume may be C. B. Davis, a tattoo artist based in London, Great Britain.
Description: Label pasted on interior of back cover, "Sketch Book, Series 26, Containing 30 leaves of Whatman's Drawing Paper."
Purchased from Charles B. Wood III, Inc., on the Jonathan O. Bulkley Fund, 2007.
Title devised by cataloger.
Extent: 1 v. (31 p.) : ill. ; 22.8 x 29.7 cm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Format: still image
Genre: Drawings (visual works)
Resource Type: Paintings & Drawings
Subject (Name): Davis, C. B.
Subject (Topic): Animals in art
Body art--Pictorial works
Emblems
Patriotism in art
Tattooing--Pictorial works
Women in art

Access: Public
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Citation: Tattoo Artist's Pattern Book. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.