Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the mediæval styles. Thirty-six plates in colours and gold with introductory and descriptive text
Polychromatic decoration as applied to buildings in the mediaeval styles is a colour-plate design manual by William Audsley, published in London by H. Sotheran & Co. in 1882 for architects and decorators working on buildings. The plates show painted friezes, corner spandrels, tiled panels and illuminated initials rendered in red, green, blue, ochre and gold. A designer could take from them ready-made historical border repeats, triangular corner fills and limited-palette colour pairings drawn from medieval practice.
