Chats on old furniture : a practical guide for collectors (1906)
Hayden, Arthur, 1868-1946 · New York : F. A. Stokes · leaf 73
The love of trav^el became a portion ofthe Englishmans heritage. The Italian spirit hadreached England in full force. The poetry and fi8 CHATS ox OLD FrUNITURE romances of Italy affected all the Elizabethan men (Aletters. Shakespeare, in his Merchant of Venice and his other plays, plainly shows the… … PANKI. OF CARVED OAK. ENGLISH ; EARLY SIXTEENTH CENTURY. Showing interlaced strapwork. (Victoria and Albert Aluseum.) The result of this wave of fashion on the domesticfurniture of England was to impart to it the eleganceof Italian art combined with a national sturdiness ofcharacter seemingly…
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