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Cradle carved in box-wood; Rogers. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of one end of the cradle, showing floral design carved in relief, with the royal coat of arms in the centre. The cradle was made for Queen Victoria by W. G. Rogers.
Part of pedestal to monument of Frederick William III. (plaster); Drake. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Showing the plaster model of the pedestal (half lifesize), by F. Drake of Berlin, with figures in the open air carved in relief around the circular drum: 'We see groups of children looking into a bird's nest, or feeding the swans, young maidens weaving garlands,...
'George I of Bohemia' (bronze); Miller. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of the full-length standing statue of George I of Bohemia by Miller of Munich, set against a light background. A print of this photograph was also shown at the 1852 Royal Society of Arts Photographic Exhibition.
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of the full-length standing statue of Libussa, by Miller of Munich, set against a white background. A print of this photograph was also shown at the 1852 Royal Society of Arts Photographic Exhibition.
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of J. Pradier's statue of a semi-draped Phryne, set against a dark background. A print of this photograph was also shown at the 1852 Royal Society of Arts Photographic Exhibition.
'Le premier berceau' (marble); Debay, A. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of View of Auguste Debay's statue of seated figure of Eve, holding two children (Cain and Abel) in her lap, set against a dark background: 'In the form and attitude of Eve there is great beauty, truth, and refinement of feeling, and the countenance admirably expres...
Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of the French sculptor E. L. Lequesne's bronze of a dancing satyr, playing a pipe: 'The motion is easy and natural, and the carefulness of the execution is maintained throughout.' (pp. 1570-71).
'The Cholera' (plaster); Etex. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of A. Etex's group of a seated woman, with a man and a child beside her: 'The allegorical group (in plaster) of the City of Paris imploring heaven to take away the plague of Cholera, is a less agreeable work, on account of the manner in which the subj...
'Cain and his family' (plaster); Etex. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of A. Etex's group, showing a seated Cain, with members of his family gathered around him: 'The characteristics of a base, abandoned nature are admirably expressed in the countenance and coarse clumsy limbs of Cain, which are very carefully studied fr...
'Cephalus and Procris' (marble); Ramus. Photographer: Ferrier, Claude-Marie
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Genre: Fine Arts, Photography of Front view of J. M. Ramus' sculpture of Cephalus supporting in his arms a dying Procris, set against a dark background: 'This group is, in its leading lines, very happily composed, and shows in the forms much knowledge of nature; but the modelling is not in a su...