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The principles of ornament / by James Ward ; edited by George Aitchison.
Ward, James, 1851-1927.Date: 1896- Pictures
Grotesque ornament. Engravings by or after J. Androuet du Cerceau.
Androuet du Cerceau, Jacques, active 1549-1584.Date: [1562?]Reference: 3183067i- Pictures
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The manufacture and use of carton-pierre and papier-mache: floral and heraldic decorative panels, the whole lettered and numbered for a key. Engraving by Le Canu after L.J. Goussier.
Goussier, Louis-Jacques, 1722-1799.Reference: 40507i- Books
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A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture. Illustrated by fifty original, and three additional plates, engraved by Old Rooker, Old Foudrinier, Charles Grignion, and other eminent hands. By Sir William Chambers, K.P.S. surveyor general of His Majesty's works; treasurer, and member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London; also of those of Paris, and Florence. FRS. FAS. FSSS.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: M.DCC.XCI. [1791]- Books
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An accompaniment to the Cabinet-Maker and upholsterer's drawing-book. Containing a variety of ornaments useful for learners to copy from, but particularly adapted to the cabinet and chair branches: exhibiting original and new designs of Chair Legs, Bed Pillars, Window Cornices, Chair Splads, and other Ornaments, calculated to assist in the Decorations of the above Branches; together with instructions in letter-press. By Thomas Sheraton, Cabinet-Maker.
Sheraton, Thomas, 1751-1806.Date: [1792?]- Books
Decorative designs of Alaskan needle-cases : a study of conventional designs, based on materials in the U.S. National Museum / by Franz Boas.
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.Date: 1908- Books
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The city and country builder's and workman's treasury of designs or The art of drawing and working the ornamental parts of architecture. Illustrated by upwards of four hundred grand designs, neatly engraved on one hundred and eighty-six copper-plates, for piers, gates, doors, windows, niches, buffets, cisterns, chinmey-pieces, tabernacle-frames, pavements, frets, gulochi's, pulpits, types, altar-pieces, monuments, fonts, obelisques, pedestals, for sun-dials, busto's, and stone tables, book-cases, cielings, and iron works. Proportioned by aliquot parts. With an appendix of fourteen plates of trusses for girders and beams, different sorts of rafters, and a variety of roofs, &c. To which are prefixed, the five orders of columns, according to Andrea Palladio; whose members are proportioned by aliquot parts, in a more easy manner than has yet been done. The whole interspersed with sure rules for working all the varieties of raking members in pediments, modillions, &c. The like, for the immediate use of workmen, never published before, in any language. By B.L.
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751.Date: 1736- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a decorative baluster and swags of foliage. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42543i- Books
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The practical builder; or workman's general assistant; shewing the most approved and easy methods for drawing and working the whole or separate part of any building; ... rules of carpentry, ... Frontispieces, chimney-pieces, ceilings ... in the newest taste; with plans and elevations ... The fourth edition; revised and corrected by the author, William Pain, ... Engraved on eighty-three plates.
Pain, William, 1730?-1790?.Date: 1789- Pictures
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Architecture: decorative ironwork. Lithograph by Kell Bros., after W. White.
White, William, 1825-1900.Reference: 44385i- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for a balustrade or decorative panel [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42549i- Books
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A treatise on civil architecture, In which the principles of that art are laid down, and illustrated by a great number of plates, accurately designed, and elegantly engraved by the best hands. By William Chambers, member of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Florence, of the Royal Academy of Architecture in Paris, and of the Society of Sciences in Stockholm, architect to the King, the Queen and Her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales.
Chambers, William, Sir, 1723-1796.Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]- Books
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Ornamental architecture in the Gothic, Chinese and modern taste, being above fifty intire new designs of plans, sections, elevations, &c. (many of which may be executed with roots of trees) for gardens, parks, forests, Woods, Canals, &c. Containing Paling of several Sorts, Gates, Garden Seats, both close and open, Umbrello's, Alcoves, Grotto's and Grotesque Seats, Hermitages, Triumphal Arches, Temples, Banqueting Houses and Rooms, Rotundo's, Observatories, Ice-Houses, Bridges, Boats, and Cascades, also, An Obelisk or Monument, with Directions where proper to be erected, and the Method how to execute them. The Whole neatly Engrav'd On Fifty Four Copper-Plates. From the designs of Charles Over, architect.
Over, Charles.Date: MDCCLVIII. [1758]- Books
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A new collection of chimney pieces, ornamented in the style of the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman architecture; containing thirty six designs, Suitable to the most elegant Range of Apartments; With descriptions of the plates in English and French. Composed, etched and engraved in aquatinta by George Richardson, architect. = Nouveau recueil de cheminées Ornees Dans le Stile De L'Architecture Etrusque, Grecque, & Romaine, Contenant Trente Six Desseins, Sortables aux appartements les plus elegants; Avec Les Descriptions des Planches en Anglois & en François. Composés & gravés en aquatinta par George Richardson, architecte.
Richardson, George, 1736?-1817?.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the carved housing of a barometer and thermometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42545i- Books
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The obligation of Christians to beautify and adorn their churches; shewn From the Authority of the Holy Scriptures, from the Practice of the Primitive Church, and from the Discipline of the Church of England Established by Law. By Mr. Lewis.
Lewis, Thomas, 1689-1749?.Date: 1721- Books
L'art dans la parure et dans le vêtement / par m. Charles Blanc.
Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882.Date: [date of publication not identified]- Books
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The ornaments of churches considered, with a particular view to the late decoration of the parish church of St. Margaret Westminster. To which is subjoined, an appendix, containing, the history of the said church; an account of the altar-piece, and stained glass window erected over it; a state of the prosecution it has occasioned; and other papers.
Hole, William, 1710-1791.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Pictures
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Building: specimens of decorative brickwork. Engraving.
Reference: 44184i- Books
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Some designs of Mr. Inigo Jones and Mr. Wm. Kent.
Kent, William (Artist)Date: 1744- Journals
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The Burlington magazine
Date: 1948-- Pictures
Cabinet-making: a design for the housing of a barometer [?]. Pencil drawing.
Reference: 42548i- Pictures
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Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself.
Verchère, J.Reference: 41348i- Pictures
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Cabinet-making: decorative architectural elements. Etching by J. Verchère after himself.
Verchère, J.Reference: 41351i- Books
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The joyner and cabinet-maker's darling, or pocket director. Containing, sixty different designs, entirely New and Useful. Forty of which are Gothic, Chinese, Mosaic, and Ornamental Frets, Proper for Friezes, Imposts, Architraves, Tabernacle Frames, Book-Cases, Tea Tables, Tea Stands, Trays, Stoves, and Fenders. And Twenty new and beautiful Designs for Gothic, Modern, and Ornamental Fan-Lights For Over-Doors, in the most elegant Taste. Calculated for the universal Use of Carpenters, Joyners, Cabinet-Makers, Masons, Plaisterers, Smiths, &c. &c. And intended to assist the Nobility and Gentry in their Choice. The whole designed and engraved by John Crunden, architect.
Crunden, John, approximately 1745-1835.Date: M.DCC.LXX. [1770]