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The Australian flora in applied art (1915)

Baker, Richard Thomas, 1854-1941 · [Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Gove. printer] · leaf 39

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N.S.W. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. (b) Capitals.It is particularly adaptable for the form of architecture as shown in the capitalof the column Figure 8, the tips of the bracts being incurved and more of theindividual flower shown than in Figure 7.The whole also conveys an idea of strengtliand solidity. In… … showing it carved as a capital in Sydneysandstone. A richness of invention is])roduced without, in the least, destroyingthe identity of the flower. This column »forms part of the colonnade at NewingtonCollege, Sydney.

Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms · Telopea in art · Flowers in art

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