Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 86
tiff and (nearly) straight-sided, in orderto oppose the circular scroll-work; but on looking close itwill be found that each of its sides is a portion of an infinitecurve, almost too delicate to be traced; except the shortlowest one, which is made quite straight, to oppose therest. I give one more… … 44 LINES. whatever can be done by machinery, or imitated by for-mula, is not worth doing or imitating at all.
Art · Aesthetics
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