The practical book of early American arts and crafts . PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CAST IRON STOVEPLATE BY BARON STIEGEL Courtesy of Henry Chapman Mercer, Esq., Font Hill, Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CAST IRON STOVEPLATE BY BARON STIEGEL Courtesy of Henry Chapman Mercer, Esq., Font Hill, Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania DECORATIVE METAL WORK 67 Beneath a classic, festooned arcade, with the trees andvines of Eden in the background, like the setting of astage, are the figures of the brothers in low but clearrelief, costumed, curiously enough, in a garb thatstrongly resembles the
The practical book of early American arts and crafts . PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CAST IRON STOVEPLATE BY BARON STIEGEL Courtesy of Henry Chapman Mercer, Esq., Font Hill, Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CAST IRON STOVEPLATE BY BARON STIEGEL Courtesy of Henry Chapman Mercer, Esq., Font Hill, Doylestown, Bucks, Pennsylvania DECORATIVE METAL WORK 67 Beneath a classic, festooned arcade, with the trees andvines of Eden in the background, like the setting of astage, are the figures of the brothers in low but clearrelief, costumed, curiously enough, in a garb thatstrongly resembles the dress of the Scottish high-landers. Burly, brawny, bare-armed Cain stands withbludgeon uplifted and just about to bring it down onthe pate of pudgy little Abel, who stands before hisinfuriated relative with hands deprecatingly is the legend, Cain Seinen Bruter Aweltot Schlug, which might be rather literally and force-fully, though somewhat colloquially, translated, Cainslugged his brother Abel dead, for the unmistakablyviolent action conveyed in the spirited drawing of thisscene of fraternal infelicity seems to require the use ofthe word slugged rather than struck. It
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