Notes and sketches of an architect taken during a journey in the northwest of Europe; (1877)
Narjoux, Felix, 1836-1891 · Boston : J. R. Osgood · leaf 376
COPENHAGEN. 365 monsters, whose nature it is difficult to determine. Their headsrest on the four corners of the tower, and their tails are curledupwards round the spire, and terminate in a sharp point. Itis impossible to explain this strange conception, and to under- … Fig. 176.—The Exchange, Copenhagen. stand its meaning. Even its origin is uncertain, for it is saidnot to be of Danish workmanship, and Christian IV. is reportedto have brought it from Kalmar, as a trophy of his victory over Sweden. This is not a remarkable building, artistically considered, butits…
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