Decoration & furniture of town houses; a series of Cantor lectures delivered before the Society of arts, 1880, amplified and enl. (1881)
Edis, Robert W. (Robert William), 1839-1927 · New York, Scribner and Welford · leaf 91
do not encourage the use of rough, unevenlyburnt tiles, by which the subject painting is generallyutterly ruined or seriously damaged. To suppose thatthis roughness and irregularity give an air of age, issimply ridiculous ; and if it did, it would be settingforth a lie, and be as bad in taste as it… … OF TOWN HOUSES. 65 In Plate IV. I give two panels of tile decorationdesigned by Mr. G. F. Malins, which are good andartistic in treatment. The designs are drawn in plainoutline of strong brownish tone on lightly tinted tiles,and the ornament slightly stained or coloured; thegeneral effect is good,…
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