Dresser, Christopher · London : and New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter, & Galpin · leaf 40
r repellent, and be simply repulsive. This form is so seldom required in ornamentation that I shall not dwell upon it, and when required it should always "be associated with power ; for if the horrible is feeble it cannot be corrective, but only revolting, like a miserable deformed animal. I think… … Fig. 18. Fig. 17. than a feeble joke, unless it be a feeble grotesque. The amusing must appear to be earnest. In connection with this subject I give here a series of grotesques, with the view of illustrating my meaning, and I would fain n-ive more, but space will not permit me t<> do so. The…
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