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"...on visiting the studio of Mons. Durlét, the architect of Antwerp cathedral and designer fo the new stalls, I was exceedingly struck by the beauty of a capital cast in plaster, hanging amongst a variety of models, which appeared to be a fine work of the thirteenth century. On asking if he would allow me to have a squeeze from it, he readily consented, but at the same time informed me, to my great surprise, that the foliage of which it was composed had been gathered from his garden, and by him cast and adjusted in a geometricala form round a capital composed of pointed mouldings. This gave me an entirely new view of medieval carving; and, pursuing the subject, I became fully convinced that the finest foliage work in the Gothic buildings were all close approximations to nature, and that their pecular character was chiefly owing to the manner of their arrangement and disposition."
