English leadwork : its art & history / Lawrence Weaver.

  • Weaver, Lawrence, 1876-1930.
Date:
1909
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: English leadwork : its art & history / Lawrence Weaver. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Fig. 417. By the Bromsgrove Guild. Fig. 418. for so grave and admirable a building, and one could wish that the national aspirations of the Principality had been satisfied by some less disturbing presentment of the Dragon of Wales. As to the fitness of casting such a detail in lead, there is, however, no doubt. The character of the subject forbids stone, bronze would be a wastefully costly material for work so far removed from close view, and the architects are to be congratulated on reviving a good tradition by employing lead. A trio of putti upholding a burden is an old enough, but always attractive device. The group shown in Fig. 412 has strong characteristics. It was designed and executed