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Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1860)

Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 110

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ose who have carried on the enterprise havedone so invariably utterly regardless of the character of the workalready executed; the practice of the day exclusively defined thecharacter of the work, as if the practical education of the handicrafts-man, his accidental skill, were the paramount source… … P. 78 The Lynn Cup. r. i mo. / GOTHIC ORNAMENT. 79 people have been more deluded of late years than on the subject ofthe nationality and the Christianity of Gothic architecture. Gothicis of comparatively very late development, and endured at most inthis country for about three centuries ; it is by…

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