Art culture : a hand-book of art technicalities and criticisms (1873)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · John Wiley and Son · leaf 87
44 LINES. whatever can be done by machinery, or imitated by for-mula, is not worth doing or imitating at all. … Pig. 10. § 18. The quantity of admissible transgression of lawvaries with the degree in which the ornamentation involvesor admits imitation of nature. Thus, if these ivy leavesin Fig. 10 were completely drawn in light and shade, they LINES. 45 would not be properly connected with the more or…
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