Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 115
ation dis-puted with the cartouch and cuirs—asthey called the straps abroad—with ro-sette and scroll, with the fabulous grif-fins, and with the mermaids of the grotesque, whose tails, turning intoscrolls, are seen dividing both to the right and left in the ornamentation ofthe Jacobean furnitures… … Jacobean Cabinet. THE JACOBEAN. Ill lish art. Yet, if such a thing were possible, it was the grotesquerie of theCinque-cento disassociated from its loftier beauty, that is to say, what weunderstand by the word grotesque when used colloquially—the monstrousand ludicrous rather than the lovely—the…
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