Suggestions in design : being a comprehensive series of original sketches in various styles of ornament : arranged for application in the decorative and constructive arts (1880)
Leighton, John, 1822-1912, Colling, James Kellaway · London : Blackie and Son · leaf 103
lendid of which was that of the ment, or of its complexity of design. Moguls, which commenced about a.d. 1494. Beautiful as it is in itself, the Taje would lose half its charm if it stood alone. It is its and had its seat at Delhi. The palace of the Moguls at Delhi built by Shah Jehan, combination… … Fig. 141.— Interior of the Taje Mahal at Agra. serve to temper the its materials being- glare that would otherwise have been in- used to repair the fortifications. But in spite of English desecration the plan of the tolerable in a building composed entirely of white marble. great hall can still be…
Decoration and ornament
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