A Treatise on Carriages
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3By this statement, the value of every kind of textit{carriage is to be obtained any way completed, by adding thereto whatever conveniences or ornaments may be thought necessary, and which are afterwards distinctly treated of; CARVING. This art contributes more effedtually than any other part of the work to the beauty and elegance of a town or state carriage. In common carriages, all that is meant by carving, and which scarcely deserves the...
Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. Excerpt from book: Section 3By this statement, the value of every kind of textit{carriage is to be obtained any way completed, by adding thereto whatever conveniences or ornaments may be thought necessary, and which are afterwards distinctly treated of; CARVING. This art contributes more effedtually than any other part of the work to the beauty and elegance of a town or state carriage. In common carriages, all that is meant by carving, and which scarcely deserves the name, is the finishing the ends of the timbers with scrowls, and the edges with mouldings. If any carving is bestowed on those plain carriages, it is on the blocks or raisers, whose front views are more conspicuous than any other timbers, and requires some degree of fancy to reduce their bulk to any agreeable appearance. The only persons at variance with this art are the coachmen, who, from the greater difficulty of cleaning after use, resent the extra trouble they are put to, and with the mop and brush endeavour, to destroy those ornaments with which the carriage is beautified. Ontextit{/ . On carriages for common use, the more simple and plain the ornaments are, the better, so as a good design is but preserved, leaving the painter's pencil to effect what is omitted in the carving, which is a good substitute to a common, -but a very poor one to a superior carriage. The carving being a necessary ornament to the timber- work, its value is always included, and proper-, tioned to the quantity contained, and the excellence of its execution, and which must depend on the sufficiency of the artist. The different representations of blocks in plate 12, will tend to give some information of the price of carving, as the timber work is the same in expence for carved as for plain blocks: the increased amount on blocks is the consequence of the superior ornaments, which ...
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