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 368
, (not always satis-factorily,) in combining angles and right lines with curves. 99. The attempts to unite two different styles should becarefully avoided, as well as the introduction of any feature ofarchitecture in a position ill suited to it. This last is an errorof common occurrence, which is… … correspond to its general lines, or its mouldings, in the jambs,against which,it abruptly abuts; as if they had been built overits two ends at a later time. An arch too, whether circular,pointed, or segmental, which is carried up so near to thehorizontal summit of a wall as only to leave a narrow…
Color · Decoration and ornament · Gardens
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