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Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library

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years of the nations history. The theme is a grand one, capable ofbeing treated in a thousand different ways and viewed from a thousand differentstandpoints; and therefore the number of groups which are to be seen in theExposition illustrative of this subject is, perhaps, larger than of any othersubject. Among these manufacturers are Reed & Barton, of Taunton, Mass.,who send a large group, symbolic of Progress, which was designed by W. C.Beattie. Its length is five feet, and its height four and a half feet. Theprogress of America from savage to civilized life is represented by a contrastbetween its condition in the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries. On the lefthand we have a group representing the primitive state of the country: theparty of savage Aztecs thinking of nothing but war—even the mother teachingher tender offspring the use of the bow; the barren rocks and scattered INDUSTRIAL ART. 63 bones indicating the lack of all notion of profiting by the fruitfulness of the
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Progress: Reed & Barton, Taunton, Mass. soil, while the angry serpent may be looked upon as typifying the fight withuntamed nature. 64 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. Four centuries pass, and behold the contrast! The Genius of Columbia,bearing the olive-branch of peace in one hand, and the fasces of just govern-ment in the other, passes before us. Mercury, the swift-footed god of com-merce and oratory, leads her steed by a flowery bridle, and thus symbolizes theguiding influences of his arts which have led us to prosperity. Beside Columbiawalks Plenty, with her overflowing cornucopia; while beneath their feet springthe plants and fruits which indicate the prosperous results of agriculture. Astudent-group in advance, surrounded by the implements of science and studyingproblems which will still further advance our interests, indicates that the futureholds in store for us other knowledge, and that to the progress already mademore is to be added. A bas-relief upon the pedestal rep

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