Identifier: gri_c00033125008700094 (find matches)
Title: The grammar of ornament
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Jones, Owen, 1809-1874 Waring, J. B. (John Burley), 1823-1875 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877 Bernard Quaritch (Firm), publisher
Subjects: Decoration and ornament Decoration and ornament Decorative arts
Publisher: London : Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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From the Abbey of St. Denis, Paris. iI m ROMAN ORNAMENT. We have not thought it necessary to give in this series any of the painted decorations of theRomans, of which remains exist in the Eoman baths. We had no reliable materials at command;and, further, they are so similar to those at Pompeii, and show rather what to avoid than what tofollow, that we have thought it sufficient to introduce the two subjects from the Forum of Trajan,in which figures terminating in scrolls may be said to be the foundation of that prominent featurein their painted decorations, I HH ■
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The Acanthus, full size, from a Photograph. 46

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