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Benjamin, Asher, 1773-1845. / The American builder's companion; or, A new system of architecture: particularly adapted to the present style of building in the United States of America
(1806)
Plate 25: three designs for friezes, pp. 44-Plate 25
Page 44
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lThe- artist will then exercise his own. skill inembossing tto a popera
d:pe of boldness, facoin & te eig ofhe room, and; the god or
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rio 0 with smal spearoshaped tools, made of iron,, o rtona
The~fingers must do a great, puart hi rding andt ni its bold
parts, whn it is embossed, to have a proper effect. It may then be finished
* it with the fingrs" and small t6o1, usingarall quntit of
oil -: te ddliD4 isfinih and aia6uld taken 4 it Uubt d c, tast
with plaser of paris, and neatly undercut an ielievedinaltth bl pat
Tjae cornice and architrave should be finished before the frieze is put up,
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a .inkitmade in the wall to receive it, the thi s f the cast, so that
when i nished the ground of the frieze should be ecvertheline of
t w0ealL* -The casts must be sd before put uP, and h joi finhed
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