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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA.
the arched portals is from this establishment. The list comprises a great variety of brackets, consoles, capitals, balusters,
medallions, reclining figures over arched openings, bas-reliefs, colossal figures of Apollo, Venus, Minerva, Flora, Hebe, etc.* A few illustrations selected from the sample-book are here introduced.
The figure of a miner in the established costume, with pickaxe over the shoulder,
* Of these beautiful figures, Dr. Barnard, in his admirable Report on the Industrial Arts of the Paris Exposition of 1867, observes, p. 359: “ Mr. Drasche exhibited one of the most attractive collections of bas-reliefs statues, vases, architectural and other ornaments in the Exposition, all of them formed in terra-cotta. His display was as remarkable for the great number of beautiful objects which it contained as for the taste with which they had been designed. They were bought up by visitors with eagerness, and only a few weeks had elapsed after the opening of the Exposition before nearly every object in the whole collection bore the mark, which in all quarters grew more and more familiar every day, ‘ sold.’ All these beautiful productions were baked in the Hoffmann furnaces of Mr. Drasche’s establishment.”