John B. Papworth: a record of his life and works, Issue 138

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Page 23 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 38 - Hints on ornamental gardening; consisting of a series of designs for garden buildings, useful and decorative gates, fences, railings, &c., accompanied by observations on the principles and theory of rural improvement, interspersed with occasional remarks on rural architecture.
Page 51 - Morrison told me that he owed all his prosperity to the discovery that the great art of mercantile traffic was to find out sellers rather than buyers ; that if you bought cheap and satisfied. yourself with only a fair profit, buyers— the best sort of buyers, those who have money to buy — would come of themselves. He said he found houses engaged with a most expensive machinery sending travellers about in all directions to seek orders and to effect sales, while he employed travellers to buy instead...
Page 100 - The absence of protection has induced manufacturers to seek a style of ornament capable of being executed with facility by workmen unpossessed of theoretical knowledge, and without practical accuracy. This style has been fostered to a great extent, and erroneously termed that of Louis XIV...
Page 109 - The design for Trafalgar is a plain octangular structure, 45 feet in diameter at the base, raised upon a magnificent flight of steps, and surmounted with a naval coronet. The Waterloo is an ornamental tower of three orders of columns, around the bate of which U a circular colonnade.
Page 97 - On the benefits resulting to the Manufactures of a Country from a well-directed Cultivation of Architecture, and of the Art of Ornamental Design,
Page 57 - ... in succession to his father from 1807 to 1846. In 1816 he visited Rome. Gwilt is known by his books, A Treatise on the Equilibrium of Arches, (8vo, 1811...
Page 51 - If I get very good things I shall become attached to the Arts ; if otherwise, I shall desert them for another Hobby. — I have spent £1200, including China, etc., last year." " I am told you gave no positive order for a frame for the print
Page 101 - It having been considered important that instruction should be afforded to those engaged in the preparation of Designs for the various branches of the Manufactures of this Country, a grant was made during the last session of Parliament for the furtherance of this object.
Page 108 - Castlereagh — and this deserves to be remembered to his credit — obtained a vote of 500,000l. for the erection of a Waterloo monument, in which painting, sculpture, and architecture, were to have been united. It seems more than probable that Haydon indirectly had something to do with suggesting the proposal. He makes little reference to it in his correspondence on the subject, and that is one reason I suspect him, — he was always remarkably prudent as to his relations with men in power, —...

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