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Book Illustration, Floriated Ornament; pl. 12
This is a book illustration. It was written by A.W.N. Pugin and published by Henry G. Bohn. It is dated 1849. Its medium is chromolithograph. It is a part of the Smithsonian Libraries department.
Pugin celebrated ornamentation in architecture and looked to nature for inspiration. However, he cautioned against using fully representational flowers or other natural forms as ornament; Pugin dismissed ornamentation that “look[s] as if the flowers…were laid on the surface with no relationship to the plane.” Pugin recognizes the skill of medieval artists who translated “leaves and flowers into geometric forms; carefully arranging the shapes to fill up the space they were intended to enrich.”
It is credited Collection of Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
- Book Illustration, The Grammar of Ornament, Moresque no. 5, plate XLIII
- chromolithograph on paper.
- Courtesy of Smithsonian Libraries.
- 1.2013.8
- Book, Floriated Ornament: A Series of Thirty-One Designs
- lithograph on paper with hand-colored plates.
- Gift of Leopold Eidlitz, Smithsonian Libraries, NK1565 .P8X 1849.
- 139.2018.5
Its dimensions are
H x W: 49.5 × 32.4 cm (19 1/2 × 12 3/4 in.)
