The wood-carver of Salem; Samuel McIntire, his life and work (1916)
Cousins, Frank, b. 1851, Riley, Phil M. (Phil Madison), b. 1882 · Boston, Little, Brown, and Company · leaf 178
advan-tages for beautifying the mantel frieze, often de-pending almost entirely upon a horizontal bas-relief panel of stucco in which exquisitely modeledhuman figures were prominent. When applied tothe wood and painted white, the ensemble lackedlittle of the daintiness and purity of marble, in… … oX Dh K>