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The open fireplace in all ages (1886)

Putnam, J. Pickering (John Pickering), 1847-1917 · Boston, Ticknor and Co. · leaf 57

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ity of design. In these great fireplaces hugetrunks of trees 6 or 8 feet long were sometimes burned. Seats wereplaced on and about the hearth, and the screens and jambs of the fire-place formed together a complete antechamber, as it were, apart from thelarge halls in which they were built, and here… … Fig. 18. Fireplace in the Ville de Cluny, Rue dAvril, No. 13. From Viollet-Ie-Duc(except figures and accessories).

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