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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 295

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an animal. (Woodcut 39.) A vase should be designed as avase, not copied from a natural object; and though some ofthe lotus-cups of the Egyptians may be tolerated as prettyconceits, they deserve no place among works of refined taste.48. [In the introduction of figures upon vases a not un-common…

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