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Vision and design (1920)

Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 93

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sted, though through great modifications,for more than three thousand years. One other fact which mayseem almost too isolated and insignificant may perhaps be put forwardhere. In a history of the Mormons, published in 1851, there is givena figure of an inscribed bronze (see Figure) which was dug up… … ANCIENT AMERICAN ART 75 still exists and might be worth investigation. Now this drawing, herereproduced, looks to me like an extremely bad and unintelligentreproduction of an early Chinese object, in general appearance notunlike certain early pieces of jade. It is fairly certain that at thetime the…

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