Identifier: australianflorai00bake (find matches)
Title: The Australian flora in applied art
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: book by Richard Thomas Baker (flicker, Wikipedia), drawing by Lucien Henry
Subjects: Decoration and ornament -- Plant forms Telopea in art Flowers in art
Publisher: (Sydney, W.A. Gullick, Gove. printer)
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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these are nowreproduced. His frieze (Figure 61) looks particularly well when seen in colour,and is designed with much taste and artistic feeling. The ground of the upperportion is pale slate, whilst the on a I panel containing the group of three Waratahs APPLIED ART. 45 is just a faint wash of the ))alest nmlral tint, which briiii^^s them out in boldrehef. The two leaves of the central flower ar.; a slatey blue, and th: foursprcadins^ leaves at the base natural colour. The i^round of the lower i)ortion isblack the top and bottom borders beini; stone colour, bounded by drab andsteel grey respecti\-ely -in fact, it is a study in neutral tints, in ohUt to brin-.^out the hii^h rose colour of the Waratah. XV.—THE WARATAH IN COLOURED WINDOWS AND LEADED LIGHTS. On. of the finest renderings of the Waratah in thi^ ))ranrh of Tcchnit al Artis that of Mr. L. Henry in the two large windows in the Sydney Town Ibill.One is reproduced here in black and white (Figure Oj) Ixit the true effect of its
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Fig. 63. 4f> N.S W. TECHNICAL EDUCATION. natural colours in such adornment must be seen in silii to bj realised, and sothese windows alone are well worth a visit of inspection to our noble Town Hall,The whole design is a fine conception by the artist, and the frame of thecentral figure (representing Australia) is supported in the lower half on bothsides by a Warafah in a vase, whilst the two smaller lateral windows are largelygiven over to Waratah decoration. Figure 64 is a black-and-white leproduction of a leadedwindow in the TechnologicalMuseum, in wiiich is embodiedthe uKjst representative flowersof our busli. In its executionthe arrangement and selection ofplants were left entirely to thedesigner, Mr. Hulme, of Sydney.He, like all other artists up tothe present time, when dealingwith our nati\e floral decora-tion, has given the place ofhonour t(j the Waratah. TheWattle, although given a promi-nent position, is quite lost inthis reproduction, nor is it C(jnsp:cu(jus in the origi

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