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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 154

An illustration from Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work, 1904, leaf 154 — a similar way of workingin gesso. The blunt look of the ornament below, which wouldbe objectionable in carving, as well as the rather broken linewhich would be against it in embossing, is here justified asbeing the expression of the material—gilded gesso. It isquite apparent how the relief is got… … 114. GILDED GESSO. ii8 ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION.

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