Art-studies from nature, as applied to design : for the use of architects, designers, and manufacturers (1872)
Hulme, F. Edward (Frederick Edward), 1841-1909, Glaisher, James, 1809-1903, Mackie, Samuel Joseph, Hunt, Robert, 1807-1887 · London, Virtue & co. · leaf 210
idea of the more FORMS OF ORGANIC REMAINS. ,95 striking characteristics of this class of fossils, which are founddistributed abundantly over the Portland rocks. The manner inwhich the folds of the shells overlap each other is singular, andgives to them often a very striking resemblance to the… … Fig. 15.ing outline, which certainly adapts these Trigonia, from the variety of forms thus produced, to the purposes of the art-manufacturerin a peculiar manner. By the wonderful transmutation of organic structures, by thosenatural processes Which turned the ocean-bed to rock,And changed its myriad…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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