Original Drawing for The Grammar of Ornament

~~In the previous chapter, points of tension were identified in three of Lewis’s paintings. Quotations from and allusions to disparate nineteenth-century texts shifted awkwardly across their surfaces and, as each source was acknowledged, modes of perception and understanding shifted as well. In this chapter, the highly referential...

By the mid-eighteenth century, rising household wealth, improvements in manufacturing, and an expanding middle class gave European consumers access to greater quantities and a wider range of goods and styles...