. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . nt. The merging of Elizabethan into early Stuart was so gradualthat for many years after Inigo Jones advent the old style was practisedwithout any substantial alterations. THE STUARTS Around the Stuarts—Steuarts or Stewards—whose surname, one is told, was derived from anancestors unromantic original post of Warden ofthe Sties,—the glamour cast by misfortune, deservedand undeserved, will probably never be dispelled. Chiefly interestingin our o^vn days as psychological studies, to their contemporariesthey were of tragic significa
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . nt. The merging of Elizabethan into early Stuart was so gradualthat for many years after Inigo Jones advent the old style was practisedwithout any substantial alterations. THE STUARTS Around the Stuarts—Steuarts or Stewards—whose surname, one is told, was derived from anancestors unromantic original post of Warden ofthe Sties,—the glamour cast by misfortune, deservedand undeserved, will probably never be dispelled. Chiefly interestingin our o^vn days as psychological studies, to their contemporariesthey were of tragic significance; and if little is traceable in theirmanners and methods, of the blood of their ruggedforbears who fought in the wars of Wallace andBruce, nearly all these decadent or effeminatedescendants possessed a magnetic charm excitingto passionate allegiance the most level-headed,even when mingled with consciousness that itsroyal recipient was unworthy of such whole-heartedtrust. FACSIMILE SKETCHES OF The decorated furniture of the days of panels by inigo
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