Men painted narrative, pictorial designs recording personal exploits or visions.
The "Scroll" issue of 1928 was the first bilingual stamp issue and also featured pictorial designs for the high values.
While his broken brushwork and interest in light effects reflected the influence of impressionism, he was equally if not more concerned with pictorial design.
Every test stamp will bear a "T" beneath the pictorial design.
Scale, distance and context are deliberately sacrificed to the needs of pictorial design.
Stained glass is the material and the art form of making coloured windows of elaborate or pictorial design.
Basically, it entailed conceiving pictorial designs so complex and technically demanding that he would never complete them.
In 1948, a new definitive series consisted of 12 values with different pictorial designs depicting local scenery.
"We have three hundred and seven regular pictorial designs," continued the webmaster.
Nevertheless, Ramsay's consummate sense of pictorial design remains as powerful as ever.