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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 540

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two curious groups of grotesque statuettes representing negrochildren, carved in black oak and supplied with glass eyes au naturel; an amusing expositionon the once much-debated question of the results of statue-tinting in natural colours. The tapestry room occupies the angle of the building shewn… … \ WESTON PARK. groundwork is crimson, and a heavy border of foliage embroidered in gold whollysurrounds each as a frame. In the centre is a large medallion within a richly worked floralwreath, and containing a classical figure subject in which the pose of the figures anddelicate blending of the…

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