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Nature in ornament (1894)

Day, Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 332

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is more free : there is more of the variety of nature in it ; but its starting point is always nature, whatever liberties the artist may take with it : it must be confessed he does not stand upon ceremony. One favourite freak of his (Plate 78) was to break the surface of a leaf by diapering it over… … teenth Century Silk, icq. Egyptian symbolic papyrus.

Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)

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