All that the experts could do was to look out for faults in his forgeries similarities between drawings or passages of less-than-masterly draftsmanship.
With the draftsmanship he'd learned in Munich, Dams drew initial plans, framing elevations in which all architectural elements are to scale without perspectival distortion.
Rossetti, probably the most visually imaginative of them and certainly the most influential on the later generation of Morris and Burne-Jones was often hampered by his uncertain draftsmanship and grasp of perspective.
Yet underlying her lyrical draftsmanship is the sleek, neoclassical modernity of Art Deco, for as this show vividly illustrates, the continuum of American landscape painting rides on the spirit of successive eras.