Man or beast, the subject was never anything but a profile relieved against a flat background.

Their object, therefore, was to select forms which presented a characteristic outline capable of being reproduced in pure line upon a plane surface.

As regarded animal life, the problem was in no wise complicated.

The profile of the back and body, the head and neck, carried in undulating lines parallel with the ground, were outlined at one sweep of the pencil.

The legs also are well detached from the body.