Putnam, J. Pickering (John Pickering), 1847-1917 · Boston, Ticknor and Co. · leaf 53
n account of the desire for novelty. (Figs. 15 and 16.) Unfortunatelythis modification involved a second, which had a still more injurious effectupon the heating power of the fire. The smoke, being no longer properlyconducted to the fine, would, under adverse circumstances, enter the room,and the… … Fig. 14. Fireplace of the Fifteenth Century. From Viollet-le-Duc. or blowers of metal, and finally by lowering the mantel and shelf itself,which modification in the course of the eighteenth century broughl thefireplace down to the form commonly met with in our day. —a form which.objects Labarthe,…
Fireplaces
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