Catalogue of a Collection of Works of Decorative Art

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS FOR EXHIBITION IN PROVINCIAL SCHOOLS OF ART. The collection is distributed as follows: -- 1. Five glazed cases, containing the greater number of the specimens, are Bo constructed as to fit together and form a stand, intended to occupy the centre of a room. These cases are elevated on a platform formed of square boxes, which are fitted as packing cases, and will contain all the objects not permanently secured in their places in the cases, and likewise the series of glazed frames hereafter mentioned. The ground space occupied by this central stand measures 12 feet by 6 feet, and the extreme height 7 feet. 2. In addition to the above there are seventy glazed frames containing specimens of textile fabrics, lace, photographs, drawings,