Art culture: a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900, Platt, W. H. (William Henry), 1821-1898 · New York : Wiley · leaf 109
ed, half-rounded flake, closely resembling in shape one of the thi(;kleaves of an artichoke or the flake of a fir cone; by com-bination forming the solid mass of the tree, as the leavescompose the artichoke head. I have before pointed outto you the general resemblance of these branch flakes to an… … * The reader, I hope, observes ahvays that every line in these fig-ures is itself one of varying curvature, and cannot be drawn by coni-passes. f I hope the reader understands that these woodcuts arc merely fac-similes of the sketches I make at the side of my paper to illustrate my COMPOSITION. 69…
Art · Aesthetics
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