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EXPOSITION AT VIENNA. 
the arched portals is from this establishment. The list com- 
prises a great variety of brackets, eousoles, capitals, balusters, 
medallions, reclining figures o.ver arehed 
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 Ms admirable Report on the Indus 
trial Arts of the Paris Exposition of 1867, observes, p. 359: “ Mr. Dräsche exhibited 
one of the most attractive collections of bas-reliefs statues, vases, arehitectural and 
other Ornaments in the Exposition, all of them formed in terra-cotta. His display 
was as remarkable for the great numberof 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 be- 
fore nearly every Object in the whole Collection höre the mark, which in all quarters 
grew more and more familiär every day, * sold.’ All these beautiful productions 
were baked in the Hoifmann fumaces of Mr. Drasche’s establishment.”