Japan: its architecture, art, and art manufactures (1882)
Dresser, Christopher · London, Longmans, Green, and Co. · leaf 459
ll attention,perfect as it is, nor thebeauty of the drawing,though this is excellent, but the thought realised in the work,namely. Summer. No one can look upon this beautiful dresswithout feeling the influence of the sunny ground, of the profusionof richly coloured bloom, of the glorious insects… … Fig. 189.—Woven Fabric with Cloth of Gold GroundAND Flowers and Flies in Colours. ART, AND ART MANUFACTURES. 443 conventional treatment does, and here we are pleased with theconsistency of the means employed to achieve the effect, while ifthe rendering had been naturalistic we should have been…
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