Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 76
id to have been madeof sand. That they were the production of mixed pagansand converts is evident from the existence, along with theinterlaced animals and woven bands nearly equalling incomplexity those of the illuminator, of certain mysteriousfigures analogous to no Christian symbol. These are… … Mystical Figures. From Monuments in Aberdeenshire. (Sculptured Stones of Scotland.Spalding Club.) The origin of interlacing, as a motif in ornament, hasfound an intelligent inquirer in Mr. French of Bolton.4 Interlacing, he says, is found in an infinite variety ofdevices in the earliest sculpture,…
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