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Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 452

An illustration from Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms, 1902, leaf 452 — that such membersshould belong to the creature. The Japanese dragon above conforms ad-mirably to the conditions of ornament. Hedoes not even break out into scroUery—he isthe scroll. His construction is anatomicallyimpossible : from the curl of his mane to theturn of his claws he is unlike any… … F KELl , rnOTO-LlTHO.e.FURNIVAL S HOLiO«N,E . C . Keltic interlaced ornaTDent The Element of the Grotesque. 21 i

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