Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 114
s in the great trees. You must have noticed, I COMPOSITION. 71 should think, that whenever a leaf is compound,—that isto say, divided into other leaflets which in any way repeator imitate the form of the whole leaf,—those leaflets arenot symmetrical, as the whole leaf is, but always smalleron the… … Fig. 27. Fig. 27., which is a block-plan of a leaf of columbine,without its minor divisions on the edges, will illustrate theprinciple clearly. It is composed of a central large mass,A, and two lateral ones, of which the one on the right onlyis lettered, B. Each of these masses is again composed…
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