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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 147

An illustration from Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work, 1904, leaf 147 — founder, we should persist in denying the artistic possi-bilities of cast iron. There is nothing contrary to art in ironcasting—except the use we make of it, and in particular ourfutile attempts to reproduce by means of it wrought-iron forms.Memories of what has been done at the forge hinder… … 107. PUNCHED SILVER WORK. appliances the} would have stopped short of great thingsin iron. All that is wanted to make iron-founding an artcreditable to the century is that spirit of artistic craftsmanship,which informed, not only the great sculptors of the Renais-sance, but the medi£eval smiths and…

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