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 134
uitable,” while the designer has not the faintest notion of what that suitability should consist of. In Fig. 42 we see combined the representative subjects — the dove, the lily, and the passion-flower — as appropriate combinations for ecclesiastical adornment. The length at which we have dealt with… … Eig. 43.— Portion of Decorative Medallion Frieze Border. troduction of landscape and figure subjects into decoration without proper ornament to support them would be disap¬ pointing, inasmuch as the subjects themselves would appear quite as much out of place as the painted flowers mentioned on the…
Interior decoration · Color in interior decoration · Mural painting and decoration
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