Old clocks and watches & their makers, being an historical and descriptive account of the different styles of clocks and watches of the past, in England and abroad, to which is added a list of ten thousand makers (1904)
Britten, F. J. (Frederick James), 1843-1913 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 459
r. In the latter the driving weightsare masked with tassels. Hogarths Dial.—xVs space permits in this chapter, I will appendas a curiosity a strange dial published by William Hogarth in a papercalled The Masquerade Ticket, which appears to have been putforth as a satire on the position accorded to… … ( 445 ) CHAPTER VII. THE PROGRESSION OF ENGLISH DOMESTIC CLOCKS. The manufacture of chamber clocks for domestic use, as distin-guished from the costly and higlily decorated timekeepers made forpubhc buildings, or to gratify the tastes of the wealthy, seems tohave commenced about 1600. These chamber…
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