Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 147
rue principles havebeen followed, is but a feeble adaptation of these ideas. The svastika appears, itis true, as the regularly recurrent feature ; but the effect is that it is producedby a fortuitous assemblage of crooks, invisible hands guiding them to catch 124 STUDIES IN THE UECOKATIYE ART OF… … I have copied this No. 11 design in fig. o>], and developed it, as in the othercases, to shew how far below them it stands in the scale of excellence. AMiat iswrong with it is fairly clear. The pnkira element is badly chosen, its extensionsare nnintelligent; it is ungracefnl in its proportions,…
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