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 21
g ofthe difference between a natural and a conventional or ornamentaltreatment of an object. A natural treatment implies naturalimitation and arrangement; but an ornamental treatment doesnot necessarily exclude imitation in the parts; as, for instance, ascroll may be composed of strictly natural… … H REES We may have, however, conventionalities of details as well asconventionalities of arrangement. A leaf or a flower, for in-stance, may be represented as it appears, with all the localaccidents of light and shade and colour: this would be a strictlynatural representation. And it may be…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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