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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 34

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(both of descending to devote their attention to the subject of internal and external decoration, asbeing a department incompatible with thedignity of their social position. That so unfavourable and depreciating an estimate of the THE decorators ASSISTANT. 21 importance of decorative art is based… … and a Flaxman in our own times, nothaving dis-dained to extend the aid of their mighty geniusto the embellishment of interiors, and even to the perfection of the outward form of objectsof manufacture destined to the uses of commonlife. Surely, no risk of degradation is to beincurred bv following in…

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