A grammar of colouring : applied to decorative painting and the arts (1896)
Field, George, 1777?-1854, Davidson, Ellis A., d. 1878, Field, George, 1777?-1854. Rudiments of the painters' art, or, A grammar of colouring · London : C. Lockwood · leaf 205
we have but little data as to the cornices andinternal ornamentation, whilst we have large portionsof the external sculptures, pavements, &c. The Sphinx, or composite animal, with which theAssyrian bulls (Fig. 14) must be classed, were alsoimportant objects in Egypt—whole avenues of… … TILK EGYPTIAN AND ASSYRIAN STYLES. 185 always male and without wings, whilst the Greciansphinx is female, with wings. It may be that theancients—the Assyrians, at least—thought that thedeities they selected to guard them should possess acombination of attributes which should render them inevery way…
Color · Pigments · Painting · Decoration and ornament
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