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 122
ometrical tracery which will stamp a design with a Gothiccharacter: decorate it with natural flowers only, it will still beGothic; it would be necessarily made much more characteristicby the introduction of some of the historic ornaments of theperiod,—as the Tudor flower, fleur-de-lis,… … All Saints, Fearing, Essex. 84 GOTHIC ORNAMENT. merits of a natural class to be characteristic should be from suchplants as are native to Gothic latitudes ; tropical plants would beinconsistent. Throughout we should prefer the wild plants of thenorth to the more exuberant flowers of the south. All…
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