Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 161
s well as elsewhere inFranconia, may be seen much ornament of beaten iron ofgreat beauty, especially candelabra decorated by imitationsof flowers, eisen-blumen, admired and preserved with as muchrespect as any other work of art. Bronze is, however, here BEATEN IKON. 145 in the old Franconian towns,… … Peter Vischer, by himself. On St. Sefialds Shrine. cipally of zinc, employing so largely the ingenuity of theParisian designers at the present day, the more facile istheir manufacture. This abandonment of beaten iron as a material for thetreatment of the designer is much to be regretted; its 146…
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