. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. h of very similar railing, with fleur-de-lis to thecentral standards, formed a screen in an unexecuted design forremodelling the forecourt of Wadham College, engraved by probably about 1690-1700, and republished in theOxford Almanack for 1733 ? The piers were surmounted by vasesinstead of heads of fauns, and the lower part of the gates was offour scrolled bars diverging diagonally from a central shield of handsome cloister grilles and gates un
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. h of very similar railing, with fleur-de-lis to thecentral standards, formed a screen in an unexecuted design forremodelling the forecourt of Wadham College, engraved by probably about 1690-1700, and republished in theOxford Almanack for 1733 ? The piers were surmounted by vasesinstead of heads of fauns, and the lower part of the gates was offour scrolled bars diverging diagonally from a central shield of handsome cloister grilles and gates under the library atTrinity College, Cambridge (Fig. 13), built by Wren in 1678, arethe work of Partridge, the London smith, who received ^^400 for themand the staircase. They consist of five horizontal panels, each,subdivided unequally into three. Three are filled with verticalbars and fringes of C scrolls with waved centres; the rest withscroll work and peculiar leaves of three designs varying in rich-ness. The design of the staircase, though taken from Tijous book,was also executed by Partridge. * The existing busts are FIG. 14. PORTRAIT OF TIJOU BY HIS SON-IN-LAW, LOUIS LAGUERRE. FROMTHE ORIGINAL CRAYON DRAWING FOR THE FRONTISPIECE TO TIJOUsbook of DESIGNS, IN THE POSSESSION OF THE PUBLISHER. The Work of Jean Tijou, 1690-1710 THE arrival of the Prince and Princess of Orange in 1689must be regarded as a momentous event in. the historyof English smithing, for in this year appears the great designerof richly worked iron, Monsieur Jean Tijou (Fig. 14),who enjoyed an exclusive royal patronage to the fullest extentthroughout the life of Queen Mary, He was probably aFrench Protestant refugee in the Netherlands who came over inthe royal train, but as to this nothing is actually known. Hisdaughter was married in the church of St. Martins-in-the-Fields to the French artist, Louis Laguerre, who was alsoburied there, as well as a Mrs. Ann Tijou, who died in 1708, and amale Tijou wi
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