Figure 3. Dresser, motif “translating” “God Save the Queen” into visual form.

Figure 3. Dresser, motif “translating” “God Save the Queen” into visual form. Dresser specifies that “For the sake of effect, the first portion of the tune occurs in the lower half of the figure” (48). From _The Art of Decorative Design_. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 3. Dresser, motif “translating” “God Save the Queen” into visual form. Dresser specifies that “For the sake of effect, the first portion of the tune occurs in the lower half of the figure” (48). From _The Art of Decorative Design_. Courtesy of the Department of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries.

Figure 6. Ornamental motifs that evoke the “mental conception” of a leaf-bud. Figure 5. A small, membranous leaf structure that grows at the juncture of leaf-stalk and stem, and causes the eye to not fixate on that juncture.