Showing posts with label Cornish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cornish. Show all posts

Thursday, September 26, 2013

The Cornish-Windsor covered bridge is the longest covered bridge in New Hampshire, spanning the Connecticut River. It was the longest still standing in the whole USA until 2008 when the Smolen-Gulf Bridge in Ohio was opened. It is 137m long.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

An Italian-style veranda outside St. Gaudens' private studio at the Cornish commune.

Tuesday, September 24, 2013

St Gaudens made this bas relief of Robert Louis Stevenson which is Stevenson's memorial in St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh. The quotation is:

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere.
Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind.
Spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.
Bless us, if it maybe, in all our endeavours.
If it may not, give us the strength to encounter that which is to come
that we may be brave in peril, constant in tribulation,
Temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune,
and, down to the gates of death,
loyal and loving to one another.

(This is St Gaudens' plaster model of the memorial)

Monday, September 23, 2013

Augustus St Gaudens bas relief of his friends children - Frieda (8) and Mortimer (7) Schiff with their pet Irish wolfhound.
St Gaudens - 1.3.1848 - 3.8.1907

Here is his wiki page

Sunday, September 22, 2013

Saturday, September 21, 2013

A golden spouting turtle, in Augustus St Gaudens' garden, Cornish, New Hampshire.

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