Quotation

Of Grotesco.
{Grotesco work, what it is.} As for Grotesco or (as we say) Antique-worke ; It takes my fancy, though in forms of different Natures, or Sexes, Sirenes, Centaures, and such like, as the outward walls of White-Hall, observes this kind ; […].
And if Poets devise these double Natur’d Creatures, why, not the Painters ; who can do what the other but bespeake ? But in true Judgment I would confine Grotesco, only to Borders and Freezes ; then it may become the Wall, within or, without doores.

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