The arts connected with building: lectures on craftsmanship and design delivered at Carpenters hall, London wall, for the worshipful company of carpenters (1909)
Davison, T. Raffles (Thomas Raffles), 1853-1937 · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 235
DECORATIVE IRONWORK. 219 Louis Fordrin adopting his designs for the St Faurs choir gates, and republishing his copper plates with his own name substituted as designer. The novelty and distinctive character of Tijou’s work lies in the use of embossed acanthus leaves, rosettes, masks, garlands,… … a smith at all, and about whom very little is known. A tablet to him, part of a larger monu- ment, Avas set up in Hampton Church in 1833, and ended, when Lyson saw it, with the words “he was an artist in his way.” The large monument was outside and against the church wall, and was destroyed with it…
Worshipful Company of Carpenters (London, England) · Architecture · Decoration and ornament · Interior decoration
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