Jackson, Frank G · London : Chapman & Hall · leaf 84
arrangement of brush forms (a), thena repetition of smaller ones grouped (6), giving the edgeof each lobe the appearance of a serrated leaf; thewhole result being the creation of an ornamental leaf,wrhich, while it has no exact prototype in Nature, yetpossesses natural qualities and is more truly… … ADVANTAGES OF BRUSH-WORK. 7i class the difference between a natural leaf and anornamental one of the kind just spoken of, and callingattention to the features that had been influenced by areference to Nature, when I was met with the question: Why not make it at once a direct copy of a naturalleaf?…
Decoration and ornament
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