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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 209

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AR OF COLOURING. hidden the others. Portions of this frieze are in theBritish Museum, and casts, coloured to suit the varioustheories as to the extent to which the ancients appliedcolour to sculptures, may be seen in the Crystal Palace(Greek Court). The pediments (or triangular spacesabove the… … Fi<?. 19. occupy. The frieze outside was filled with metopes orgroups of figures and triglyphs, which were supposedto represent the ends of joists resting on the archi-traves. These were divided into three compartmentsby grooves or water-channels, and underneath arependants, supposed to…

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