02-12-2016, 08:58 PM
(02-12-2016, 08:53 PM)Koen Gh. wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.What strikes me is that whoever made this copy was not a bad artist at all. If a person with this skill level wanted to copy the VM plant exactly, he could have.
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This is a good point and I think you're right, the illustrator was capable of a faithful copy.
It's hard to think of explanations for this, but the one you proposed seems reasonable. I had considered that maybe constraints in terms of access to the original might be a possibility. Could it have been mostly sketched and then finished elsewhere, maybe with another manuscript as reference?