Examples of household taste . Monumental Brass: Singer 6° Co., Frome, England. it is, in our opinion, that gives them so peculiar and marked a character, derivedfrom their expressing, as it were, the fresh idea and inspiration of the artist, ?oo THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. and unattainable bythe cold and regularexecution of theworkman. The veryimperfections andomissions, purposelymade, give to theworkmanship thatartistic character alto-gether wan tin of in thegreater number ofmodern works, which,owino- to a monoto-nous uniformity pro-duced by punchingand casting, have anappearance of t
Examples of household taste . Monumental Brass: Singer 6° Co., Frome, England. it is, in our opinion, that gives them so peculiar and marked a character, derivedfrom their expressing, as it were, the fresh idea and inspiration of the artist, ?oo THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. and unattainable bythe cold and regularexecution of theworkman. The veryimperfections andomissions, purposelymade, give to theworkmanship thatartistic character alto-gether wan tin of in thegreater number ofmodern works, which,owino- to a monoto-nous uniformity pro-duced by punchingand casting, have anappearance of trivial-ity, depriving them ofall individual charac-ter, that charm whichso constantly strikesus in the productionsof the ancients. The first problem,then, that presenteditself to our attentionwas to find the meansof soldering together,with the utmost neat-ness and delicacy, somany pieces of ex-traordinary minute-ness. Among others,those almost invisible.
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