Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles: an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art; being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850 (1856)
Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877, Finden, A, F., A. F, Halliday, G, Hutton, M. M, Mateaux, G, Rees, M. R, S., H. M, Sheldrick, E, Sparling, H. M, Swallow, Jane F, Wheeler, S. A · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 22
sed. It is requisite that we should have a clear understanding of the difference between a natural and a conventional or ornamental treatment of an object. A natural treatment impHes natural imitation and arrangement ; but an ornamental treatment does not necessarily exclude imitation in the parts… … M REES We may have, however, conventionalities of details as well as conventionalities of arrangement. A leaf or a flower, for in- stance, may be represented as it appears, with all the local accidents of light and shade and colour : this would be a strictly natural representation. And it may be…
Decoration and ornament · Architecture
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