DOI Heft:
Nr. 335 (April 1925)
DOI Artikel:Rosse, Helena S.: Statuary in the garden
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19985#0049
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"fighting boys" fountain by janet scudder
the beautiful animal figures found in Herculaneum, statuary, provided that the inherent qualities of
such as the gazelle and the running pig, which if softness and malleableness are brought out, as
placed skilfully, can make a charming effect in a was so successfully done in the eighteenth-century
garden. English leaden garden statuary.
Although it is doubtful whether it is advisable Together with the iron garden statuary before
to use the softer metals such as lead and the alloys mentioned, the terra cotta figures of the same
of lead in imitation of the sharply cast originals, as period were also largely relegated to the scrap-
the Japanese are so fond of doing, it is certain that heap. Typical of these, as the old standby of our
lead is one of the metals par excellence for garden youth, is the statue of two children holding an
april I925
forty-nine
"fighting boys" fountain by janet scudder
the beautiful animal figures found in Herculaneum, statuary, provided that the inherent qualities of
such as the gazelle and the running pig, which if softness and malleableness are brought out, as
placed skilfully, can make a charming effect in a was so successfully done in the eighteenth-century
garden. English leaden garden statuary.
Although it is doubtful whether it is advisable Together with the iron garden statuary before
to use the softer metals such as lead and the alloys mentioned, the terra cotta figures of the same
of lead in imitation of the sharply cast originals, as period were also largely relegated to the scrap-
the Japanese are so fond of doing, it is certain that heap. Typical of these, as the old standby of our
lead is one of the metals par excellence for garden youth, is the statue of two children holding an
april I925
forty-nine