Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 58
t to result intoo much glitter, and produce an effect which theFrench call clinquant. A more important reason,however, is that while brass lends itself to the ad-mirable engraving which is found upon all the finestBoulle work, it is not easy to engrave, nor is mucheffect produced by engraving, tbe… … WILLIAM AND MARY CABINET, INLAID METAL AND WOOD. 242 THE MAGAZINE OF AET. unsympathetic brass scroll-work, by means of thedark lines which the graving tool makes, a gentleshading to express the natural turn of a leaf, orthe modelling of a face or figure. It also softensthe crude, hard outline of…
