. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 49. IRON GATES FROM GIBBSTHECA RADCLIVIANA, I747. 34 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. o < QO n o PS Iz;w M asu oo o K H KH o<Ofa O O The Influence of Architects 135 gates are plain, and, like the railings, about 10 feet high, with openwelded spikes, a border of C scrolls and arrow-pointed dog-barsbetween the verticals. Gibbs lead was, however, not generallyfollowed and ironwork fiUs a very unimportant place, if any, inarchitectural
. English ironwork of the XVIIth & XVIIIth centuries; an historical & analytical account of the development of exterior smithcraft. FIG. 49. IRON GATES FROM GIBBSTHECA RADCLIVIANA, I747. 34 English Ironwork of the XVIIth and XVIIIth Centuries. o < QO n o PS Iz;w M asu oo o K H KH o<Ofa O O The Influence of Architects 135 gates are plain, and, like the railings, about 10 feet high, with openwelded spikes, a border of C scrolls and arrow-pointed dog-barsbetween the verticals. Gibbs lead was, however, not generallyfollowed and ironwork fiUs a very unimportant place, if any, inarchitectural books of the eighteenth century. The traditionaldesigns of the smiths were little influenced by them, for some atleast among our best craftsmen had been familiar with Frenchstyles for quite fifty years. Jores published his New Book ofIron Work in 1759, containing a great variety of designs, usefulfor painters, cabinet makers, carvers, smiths, fillegre piercers, contains twenty copper plates designed by J. Jores, buttwelve of them are simply copies of Huquiers designs, as pointedout by Guilmard in the Maitres Ornamentistes. WeUdons SmithsRight Hand, 1765, was a smaller book with the majority of theplates also taken from French or
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