Identifier: gri_c00033125013108853 (find matches)
Title: On colour, and on the necessity for a general diffusion of taste among all classes : with remarks on laying out dressed geometrical gardens, examples of good and bad taste, illustrated by woodcuts and coloured plates in contrast
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Wilkinson, John Gardner, 1797-1875
Subjects: Color Decoration and ornament Gardens
Publisher: London : J. Murray
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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2, Tr. Rawlinson.) The Phoeniciansimported purple from Hermione in Argolis, Cytherea, &c.; and Ezekiel,xxvii. 7, says it came to Tyre from the Isles of Elishah (Hellas, orGreece); it has therefore been thought that this was different from theoriginal purple of Phoenicia, which accords with the above statement. Page 242, line 5, on Flaxman, add this note : — * Like the Greeks, he felt the impropriety of displaying grief insculpture ; and though the Greeks in writing used a stronger ex-pression than our indulged in grief (as in the • Terapirw^effda 70ojoof Homer, II. ty. 10), they abstained from representing the suffer-ing countenance in sculpture and painting ; as we even see in a frescorepresenting the sacrifice of Iphigenia, given in GelPs Pompeii Page 266, line 2, for finished houses, read furnished houses. Page 302, line 19, on Homeric age, add this note: — * Cf. H. $. 743, the Sidonian crater offered as a prize by Achilles,at the funeral games of Patroclus. f) PI II mini
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I.G.W. as SEVEN COLOURS GIVEN TO BE ARRANGED IN A PATTERN London, JolmMimuj, Albemarle Street, Nov:1858. I Hgn> PL III.

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