Beautiful homes : or, Hints in house furnishing (1878)
Williams, Henry T, Jones, C. S., Mrs · New York : Henry T. Williams, Publisher · leaf 33
itiated, for it is not mere imitations which tend to mar theartistic beauty of our homes and deprave the public taste, but the makingof imperfect and crude copies, and ungraceful, ordinary models. Thus inselecting a statuette for the hall, instead of taking a statue of Wasliingtonin his military… … Fig. 10. BEAUTIFUL HOMES. 31 beautiful trappings would present an imposing appearance if skillfully bronzed.The gracefully lifted arm may support any suitable article before named, andthus add utility to beauty; or if a different class of figure is preferred, thegrace and loveliness of Fig. 10 will…
Decoration and ornament
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