American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 445
ess as a memorial to Wash-ington, it was to be noted that inthe composition of the shaft prop-er the prevalence of vertical linesshould have been counterbalanced,for the sake of repose, by a morejudicious use of interrupt-ing horizontal belts, suchmdeed as seem to giverepose and massiveness tothe… … excuse and give a character ofart to a composition of this sort,would have been more keenlyfelt. Moreover, from an aestheticpoint of view, what was to be saidof an envelope so enormous andso costly as this, which dependedfor its character entirely uponthe disposition of forty-four blankwindows,…
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