Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles: an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art; being an outline of a course of sixteen lectures on that subject, originally prepared for the government schools of design in the years 1848, 1849, 1850
Ralph Nicholson Wornum's 1856 London lecture outline, published by Chapman and Hall, was prepared for government schools of design to teach the history of ornamental art. Its plates set out Greek and Roman architectural ornament as engraved line drawings: acanthus scrolls, anthemion palmettes, key fret borders, and fluted column capitals. A designer can take from them a clear vocabulary of classical scroll, leaf and border patterns that adapt readily to panels, friezes and column details.
