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Identifier: repositoryofarts518acke (find matches)
Title: The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics
Year: 1809 (1800s)
Authors: Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834
Subjects: Fashion Art, Decorative
Publisher: London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ...
Contributing Library: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library
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7 now be executed, at a compa-ratively trifling charge, in iron.There is scarcely an ornament ornecessary part but what might becast at our iron-foundries, even tothe highest wrought filigree Go-thic; and as nearly all the traceryand ornaments in this style areproduced by a repetition of a fewsimple parts, the plan would befound perfectly practicable. Aslightness and elegance are the lead-
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< THE FEMALE TATTLKR. 345 ing and most, desirable charactersin this class of building, thesemight, under the direction of able artists,be carried to a much higher de-gree of perfection than they everwere capable of with so fragile anddestructible a material as stone.The light groups of Gothic co-lumns, the springs for arches andgroined roofs, ike. might be so con-structed as to unite the most per-fect lightness of character withstrength and durability. Churches erected with this ma-terial would be rendered perfectlysecure from fire; and the iron-work and ornaments being coatedover with an anticorrosive of astone-colour, would be renderedindestructible for ages: the workwould always remain sharp and per-fect, as it would not, like stone, besubject to the corrosion of the at-mosphere, or the dilapidation soconstantly produced by the care- lessness of workmen. I would begleave to suggest, that the towersand spires of these buildings mightbe constructed in the plainest andi most simple

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  • bookdecade:1800
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Ackermann__Rudolph__1764_1834
  • booksubject:Fashion
  • booksubject:Art__Decorative
  • bookpublisher:London___Published_by_R__Ackermann_____Sherwood___Co__and_Walker___Co______and_Simpkin___Marshall____
  • bookcontributor:Philadelphia_Museum_of_Art__Library
  • booksponsor:Lyrasis_Members_and_Sloan_Foundation
  • bookleafnumber:428
  • bookcollection:philadelphiamuseumofart
  • bookcollection:americana
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