Ornamental drawing, and architectural design. With notes, historical and practical. Upwards of 200 illustrations (1857)
Burn, Robert Scott · London, Ward and Lock · leaf 55
51 AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. recognised as incident to another — by borrowing ornaments expressive of lofty associations, and applying them to mean objects — by hiding the … structural purpose of the article, and sanctioning, by a borrowed form, the presumption that it may have been made for a totally different fig. 136 a. object, or in a perfectly different way, — such men cannot clear themselves from the charge of degrading art by systematic misrepresentation, as they
Architecture · Decoration and ornament
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