Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art
Ralph Nicholson Wornum's survey of historical ornament, published in London by Chapman and Hall in 1860 as a teaching text for art and design students tracing style from antiquity to the Renaissance. Outline engravings isolate single motifs — pilaster panels, scrolling foliage bands, grotesque candelabra, rosette borders — as clean linework with no shading, ready for tracing, tiling, or vector redraw.
