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Updated: May 13, 2025
The Irish cattle trade had been killed by an Act of Charles II. for the benefit of English farmers. The Irish then took up the raising of wool and woolen manufactures. A flourishing trade grew up. An English law destroyed it. In succession the same greed killed the cotton, the glovemaking, the glassmaking, and the brewing trades. These were reserved for the English maker and merchant.
No one now seriously considers that the first discovery of glass, and for all I know Enrico may be right in his flat statement that the first glass was made at Venice, "for Venice always was." The art of glassmaking surely goes back to the morning of the world.
He knew things about glassmaking, enamel-work, dyestuffs, and medicine, that no one else did. He was occupied almost wholly with experiment and research. There are not two such men in a century. "Giovanni, you are the only one of us who has been beyond the Rhine. Do you know any one there who might possibly aid in this search?" The Lombard seldom talked unless he was directly addressed.
Coloring and arrangement of figures finer than in smaller panels. On east wall under dome, "Art Crowned by Time." Father Time crowns Art; on one side, figures of Weaving, Jewelry Making, Glassmaking; on other Printing, Pottery, and Smithery. "Man Receiving Instruction in Nature's Laws." Woman holds before a child a tablet inscribed "Laws of Nature."
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