Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the Mediaeval style : thirty-six plates in colours and gold, with introductory and descriptive text / by W. & G. Audsley, and authors of Popular dictionary of architecture and the allied arts. etc. etc.
A colour plate book on medieval-style architectural decoration, written by the brothers W. and G. Audsley and published in London by H. Sotheran in 1882 for architects and decorators. Its plates are chromolithographs of heraldic devices, colour swatches and painted column capitals, each rendered in flat muted tones of red, teal, ochre and gold. A designer could take from these a restrained Victorian palette of earthy and sage colours and the repeat of banded stripes and stencilled motifs on columns.
