. The Englishman's house, from a cottage to a mansion. A practical guide to members of building societies, and all interested in selecting or building a house . ome good examples are to be seen in the SouthKensington Museum Galleries. In columns withtrellis work a white marble ground with leaves androses twined round it naturally, would look a greatdeal better than formal lines of stiff ornaments. Some of our latest Gothic architects who were atthe same time artists, did not trouble themselves todraw out according to rule the geometric lines for thefoliation of their Gothic windows. They knew
. The Englishman's house, from a cottage to a mansion. A practical guide to members of building societies, and all interested in selecting or building a house . ome good examples are to be seen in the SouthKensington Museum Galleries. In columns withtrellis work a white marble ground with leaves androses twined round it naturally, would look a greatdeal better than formal lines of stiff ornaments. Some of our latest Gothic architects who were atthe same time artists, did not trouble themselves todraw out according to rule the geometric lines for thefoliation of their Gothic windows. They knew theprinciples thoroughly, but merely made the verticallines correct, and then sketched in the foliation witha free hand. This gave an outline greatly superior tothe usual stiff conventional forms. Some examples ofthis may be seen in one of the authors books, now inthe Fine Art Library of the South KensingtonMuseum, in which the free-hand designs (rubbings)are placed by the side of the same patterns drawn outgeometrically. ROOF ORNAJ^IENTS. 463 The vignette shows foreign cut-wood patterns forroof ornament; the section the method of forming thezinc \ o c t—I E-
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