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1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 143 Vitruvius makes this Freeze flat, but commonly Carv'd with Acanthus Leaves, Lions and Men.

1783 M. Berry Jrnl. 16 Nov. (1865) I. 53 The front of the cathedral is Gothic..but in very bad taste; the acanthus leaves of the Corinthian capital are placed upon..a crowd of Gothic ornaments.

1819 J. Taylor Naturales Curiosæ 136 It becomes a monstrous production of ignorant art: the whole is a body of acanthus leaf bearing olive or laurel leaves at its tops and sides.

1861 J. M. Neale Notes on Dalmatia 81 On the vertex of the arch is our Lord's monogram, also medallioned and surrounded by acanthus leaves.

1904 R. Sturgis Lübke's Outl. Hist. Art I. 272 The so-called Composite or Roman capital..appears in many forms in which the unwieldy magnificence of a coarser form of the Ionic capital crowns the two rows of daintily curved acanthus leaves.

1953 Harvard Theol. Rev. 46 242 The most usual form of these wreaths was of woven acanthus leaves.

2009 National Art Coll. Fund Rev. 2008–9 73/1 This ormolu-mounted firegrate..has a rectangular back plate above a tapering grate, decorated with acanthus leaf mounts and paw feet on a plinth base.