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The grammar of ornament (1868)

Jones, Owen, 1809-1874, Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875, Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893, Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877, Bernard Quaritch (Firm), publisher · London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly · leaf 68

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■ ■ ASSYRIAN AND PERSIAN ORNAMENT. … rather indicated than expressed, became at last exaggerated; the conventional was abandoned for animperfect attempt at the natural. In Assyrian sculpture this attempt was carried still farther, andwhile the general arrangement of the subject and the pose of the single figure were still…

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