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Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1897)

Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 298

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ex, Lyme Hall in Cheshire, St.Pauls Cathedral, and Trinity College Chapel at Oxford.Many of the old English halls and manor houses also con-tain examples of carving done either by Gibbons or his FURNITURE. 279 pupils and immediate successors, namely, Watson, Drevot,and Laurens. Under the Regency of… … Fiy. 24O.—Minor Frame ; Seventeenth Century. (P.) exponent. Watteau, his pupil, made a great name as apainter of pastoral scenes, yV/6\y galantes, and all kinds oflight and daintily-treated subjects of a theatrical andartificial kind of composition. His colour was silvery andharmonious, and…

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