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Elementary principles of ornament (1890)

Ward, James, 1851-1927 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 74

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61 plant for the purposes of design ; sections of petals,stamens, leaves, and fruit, may serve a scientific end, butmake a very poor show in what is intended for anartistic design. Landor the poet thought it was an act ofcruelty to cut a flower from its stem : it would be inter-esting to know his…

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