Britain at Work
A Pictorial Description of Our National Industries
År: 1902
Forlag: Cassell and Company, Limited
Sted: London, Paris, New York & Melbourne
Sider: 384
UDK: 338(42) Bri
Illustrated from photographes, etc.
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304
BRITAIN
AT WORK.
without drawbacks, I am not prepared to
assert. Strange indeed would it be if this were
not so. The work, as the reader will know
for himself, has a plentiful lack of regularity,
and while both master painters and assistants
often have to toil under heavy pressure to
get their scenes ready by the eventful night,
the assistants, at any rate, sometimes have
periods of enforced leisure. The attractions
of the vocation, however, to those
to whom
work itself is congenial, far outweigh
disadvantage. If the practitioner of the
is clever and resourceful, if he can
only
wield the brush swiftly and
is also facile in inventing a.
the manager’s brief hints, which
rarer gift, he in no long time
the
this
art
not
deftly, but
scene from
is a much
may rise to distinction, besides being liberally
rewarded in a pecuniary sense for his industry
and skill.
W. Wheeler.
A FINISHED SCENE (MR. RYAN’S STUDIO).
Photo: Cassell & Co., Ltd._