Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers (1872)
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909, Glaisher, James, 1809-1903, Mackie, Samuel Joseph, Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887 · London, Virtue & co. · leaf 213
to be found moulded and painted on worksof ornament and utensils for domestic use through all ages. Numerous and ever graceful as are the forms of the livingvegetable world—and these have been extensively copied—thereis a vast field within which diligent search will discover a greatvariety of… … and it is found that localcauses, with which we arenot acquainted, have modi-fied in a strange mannerthe plastic vegetation of thisperiod; and in what ap-pear to be analogous posi-tions we find whole generaand even orders of plants ofvery opposite botanical cha-racter, presenting a greaterdisparity…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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