Famous homes of Great Britain and their stories (1900)
Malan, Alfred Henry, editor · New York, G. P. Putnam's son; London, The Pall Mall magazine · leaf 298
the point of the pediment, represents Neptune with his tri-dent, and on either side are Venus with her cestus floating in theair and Pan with his pipes. The founding of lead garden statuesseems to have been a special industry in the eighteenth century ;and the original figure-yard for this kind of… … 271 2 72 Xi?me about 1740. There has been no leaden figure manufactory since1787, when one Cheere died. Another reason why so few arenow to be seen is because many of the leaden figures in thiscountry were exported to America during the American War ofIndependence, to become bullets, because the…
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