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A WROUGHT IRON DOOR.
IN THE POSSESSION OF N. J. COTTINGHAM, ESQ. ARCHITECT.
OR this beautiful specimen of perforated wrought iron
we are indebted to the extraordinary Architedtural
Museum colledted with so much taste, so much induilry,
and at so great a coil by the late Mr. L. N. Cotting-
ham, the celebrated Architedt.
His enthusiasm in favour of our national architedture led him to secure,
not only an imrnense number of original works osfered to his notice
during a long professional career, but also to have caits most carefully
taken of many of the most beautiful gems of decorative art, of all pe-
riods, to be found in our cathedrals, in our churches, and in some of
the fine examples of the domeitic architedture of our ancestors, still
existing in various parts of the country. The result is, a colledtion of
the moit useful and initruitive kind—not only to architeits and the dif-
ferent operatives employed under them ; but to all who take an interest
in the chronology of architedture, and wish to trace the distindtive pecu-
liarities of each particular style, and the mode of treatment by which
its various features are brought into harmony with each other.
These studies cannot fail of impressing us
with the highest admiration for the genius and
skill of the architedts of the middle ages, who
rarely failed of adding the pidturesque and the
beautiful to the arrangements most convenient
for the purposes to which their buildings were
to be applied ; while the smallest details were
charadterized by elegance of form, richness of
material, or devices and ornaments, in which
quaintness and propriety were most happily
combined.
Mr. Cottingham purchased this Door, with
another of a similar charadter from a dealer,
who could give him no information respedting
the place from whence they came.
The wood-cut shows the patterns employed
in the two panels more at large.
IN THE POSSESSION OF N. J. COTTINGHAM, ESQ. ARCHITECT.
OR this beautiful specimen of perforated wrought iron
we are indebted to the extraordinary Architedtural
Museum colledted with so much taste, so much induilry,
and at so great a coil by the late Mr. L. N. Cotting-
ham, the celebrated Architedt.
His enthusiasm in favour of our national architedture led him to secure,
not only an imrnense number of original works osfered to his notice
during a long professional career, but also to have caits most carefully
taken of many of the most beautiful gems of decorative art, of all pe-
riods, to be found in our cathedrals, in our churches, and in some of
the fine examples of the domeitic architedture of our ancestors, still
existing in various parts of the country. The result is, a colledtion of
the moit useful and initruitive kind—not only to architeits and the dif-
ferent operatives employed under them ; but to all who take an interest
in the chronology of architedture, and wish to trace the distindtive pecu-
liarities of each particular style, and the mode of treatment by which
its various features are brought into harmony with each other.
These studies cannot fail of impressing us
with the highest admiration for the genius and
skill of the architedts of the middle ages, who
rarely failed of adding the pidturesque and the
beautiful to the arrangements most convenient
for the purposes to which their buildings were
to be applied ; while the smallest details were
charadterized by elegance of form, richness of
material, or devices and ornaments, in which
quaintness and propriety were most happily
combined.
Mr. Cottingham purchased this Door, with
another of a similar charadter from a dealer,
who could give him no information respedting
the place from whence they came.
The wood-cut shows the patterns employed
in the two panels more at large.