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The Decorator's assistant (1847)

[London : W. Gibbs] · leaf 111

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men is a representation of a capital from thenave of Romsey Abbey Church, Hants; builtA. D. 1220. Early Norman Style of Architecture.the style employed in England from the mid- … act of cutting out a representation of theform of any object on a surface of hard stone,metal, or wood. The art, in this, its most ex-tensive signification, dates from the highestantiquity—the engraved tables of the Jewishlaw, the sculptered gems set in the breastplateof their high priest, the…

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