Practical house decoration : a guide to the art of ornamental painting, the arrangement of colours in apartments and the principles of decorative design : with some remarks upon the nature and properties of pigments (1886)
Facey, James William · London : Crosby Lockwood · leaf 127
CHAPTER XII. THE STUDY OF EMBLEMATIC DESIGN. … this theory, first of all described as something which by its general outline conveys to the mind a pictorial presentment of a given object, and as signs or emblems were originally used in much the same manner as are our alphabets of the present day, viz. to convey to the spectator a sentence or an…
Interior decoration · Color in interior decoration · Mural painting and decoration
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