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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 224

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what has been called diapering/* The diaper con-sisted of a small flower, or geometrical pattern, carvedin low relief, the design being repeated in separate * The origin of this term has heen much discussed. It is supposedto be taken from a kind of cloth worked in small square patterns, andwhich… … Fig. 31. squares or other figures. Fig. 29, from WestminsterAbbey, is an illustration of one of these. The crocket and finial were also ornamental featuresof this and the subse-quent periods. Thecrocket consisted, in theiirst place, merely ofthe pastoral crook, butsoon became an orna-ment formed of…

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