The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 166
ion there-fore on tliese subjects, forwarded through the Editor of this Journal,I shall be hap|)y to receive, so as to make this series of papers an in-teresting ami valuable record of the meritorious exertions of ingeniousindividuals. From my present notes, I have contributed this paper,in which,… … The excellence of the composition, the symmetrical forms of the manyelegant vases and tazzas, the well modelled and numerous architecturalornaments at this establishment claim particular attention. Thosetwo noble vases the Borghese and Medici have been restored from theoriginals to their full size,…
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