On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes : with remarks on laying out dressed geometrical gardens, examples of good and bad taste, illustrated by woodcuts and coloured plates in contrast (1858)
Wilkinson, John Gardner, 1797-1875 · London : J. Murray · leaf 283
n in the knowledge,as well as in the practice, of art can only be brought aboutby gradual steps.] The same tendency causes the majority ofthe people to feel an interest in specimens of natural historyat a museum, in preference to works of art; and the largestcrowd at the Great Exhibition of 1851… … Fig. 1. Fig. 2. Fig. 3. Fig. 4. following out the negative process, I shall introduce somefaulty objects which are to be avoided ; beginning with thosethat err chiefly in want of proportion, as in the four given in §45. FORMS OF VASES. 249 the preceding woodcut (18), which are too lengthy for…
Color · Decoration and ornament · Gardens
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