perforating-machines

Updated: June 10, 2025

Often a place has been demanded for his name in the history of Art, and the first place too, because of his fine frank eye, or the simplicity of his manners, because his workmen cut the chain of the Greek slave out of one piece of stone, or the marble of the statue itself had no spot as big as a pin-head, because he himself chooses to rasp and scrape plaster, rather than model in plastic clay, because he tinkered up the "infernal regions" of the Cincinnati Museum years ago, or spends his time now in making perforating-machines and perforated files; in fine, for any reason rather than for the right legitimate one of artistic merit, they have demanded room for their favorite.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860