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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 39

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and Persepolis Restored; an Essay on Ancient Assyrian and Persian Architecture. 8vo. London, 1851. Picturesque Illustrations of Ancient Architecture in Hindostan. Folio. London, 1852. The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture; being a concise and popular account of the different styles of… … lluins at Thebes. The earliest style of ornament of which we know anything ofmaterial importance is the Egyptian, dating from about 1800 B.C.,when it was already completely established ; and this is literally ahieroglyphic style in its sentiments and in its details; both arederived from a priestly…

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