The Art of Decorative Design, with an appendix, giving the hours of the day at which flowers open (the flower clock); the characteristic flowers of the months (both indigenous and cultivated), of all countries, and of the diversified soils
Artwork Details
- Title: The Art of Decorative Design, with an appendix, giving the hours of the day at which flowers open (the flower clock); the characteristic flowers of the months (both indigenous and cultivated), of all countries, and of the diversified soils
- Author: Christopher Dresser (British, Glasgow, Scotland 1834–1904 Mulhouse)
- Publisher: Day & Son, Ltd., London
- Printer: Savill & Edwards (London)
- Binder: W. Bone & Son (London)
- Published in: London
- Date: 1862
- Medium: Illustrations: lithographs and color lithographs
- Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 6 11/16 x 1 3/8 in. (24.7 x 17 x 3.5 cm)
- Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
- Credit Line: Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1970
- Object Number: 1970.565.60
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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