Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York, Harper & brothers · leaf 116
on which such things found at that time in the gen-eral English mind; and both the application of the word and the usemade of the designs show. moreover, that ancan seldom havenatural growth i art exotica healthyin a foreignland, that the mind whichconceives is oftenest the onlyone that can go on… … Jacobean Court Cupboard. traits to accord with the magnificent monarch of the era, in the Jacobean,with its torture of outline into conceits and quirks and quips, with theprofuseness of its gilding, with its affectation of acquaintance with foreignfashion, even with the stiffness of that about it…
Furniture · Interior decoration
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