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Progress in art and architecture : with precedents for ornament (1852)

Seddon, John Pollard, 1827-1906 · London : D. Bogue · leaf 69

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est our attention. In Plate VII., fig. 4, aswell as in the annexed woodcut, is shown someof the magnificent ornament for which, as beforementioned, the thistle has formed the type ; and inPlate VIII., fig. 5, is given the head of one of thelofty lancet apse windows from the church of St.Sauveur, at… … Crocket from St. Sau-veur, Caen. In Plates X. XI. and XII. I liave put together sundry details frombuildings in Italy, executed with more or less Gothic influence, but in themanner pecuhar to the soutii, their treatment being bossy in character, inorder to gain great breadth of light and shade. Not…

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