Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - jearsof triumphant vulgarity between 1840 and 18G0, in the never-. SIDEBOARD SHOWN AT THE EXHIBITION 01 ISol.(From ^* riuhmlritd Arta of the Kinvtt^inth Centurif, hy Sir jl/. D. Wiiatt.) forgotten late Renaissance and French decadence; while a marketwas found also for the Wardour Street Gothic of the archi-tects of the new school. Some quite amazing drawing-roomcabinets and consoles were evolved—decoration
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . - jearsof triumphant vulgarity between 1840 and 18G0, in the never-. SIDEBOARD SHOWN AT THE EXHIBITION 01 ISol.(From ^* riuhmlritd Arta of the Kinvtt^inth Centurif, hy Sir jl/. D. Wiiatt.) forgotten late Renaissance and French decadence; while a marketwas found also for the Wardour Street Gothic of the archi-tects of the new school. Some quite amazing drawing-roomcabinets and consoles were evolved—decorations including star-spangled niches with statues unimpeachable in their decorousmarble nakedness, patriotic groups of Englands soldiers in cast 632 THE SUCCESSIOX OF THE DEMOCRACY. StainedGlass. Gold- smithsWork. Jewellery. bronze, gilded griflbns, trophies of arms, and cornucopias of peaceand plenty. Ebony tables inlaid with silver or costly marque-terie were reserved for the wealthy, while paltry imitations ofthem satisfied the poorer classes. Beds were andsuperb—carved and polished, and hung with heavy curtains,with valances round, sometimes embroidered with medallionsemblematic of the domestic virtues in tent-stitch. The one obvious
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