 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1811 - 522 էջ
...Mexico and Xalapa have very much contributed, to diffuse a taste for beautiful antique forms. Sen' ices of plate to the value of a hundred and fifty, or two...lately manufactured at Mexico, which for elegance ami fine workmanship may rival the finest work of the kind ever executed in the most civilized parts... | |
 | Alexander von Humboldt - 1814 - 524 էջ
...schools for drawing in Mexico and Xalapa have very much contributed to diffuse a taste for beantiful antique forms. Services of plate to the value of a...Europe. The quantity of precious metals which between 1798 and 1802 was converted into plate at Mexico, amounted at an average to 385 marcs of gold and 26,803... | |
 | Josiah Conder - 1830 - 380 էջ
...contributed to diffuse a taste for beautiful antique forms. Services of plate to the value of 150 or 200,000 francs have been lately manufactured at Mexico, which,...finest work of the kind ever executed in the most civilised parts of Europe. The quantity of precious metals which, between 1798 and 1802, was converted... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 644 էջ
...expected, been a favourite occupation. Services of plate, worth 30,000 or 40,000 dollars, have been manufactured at Mexico, which, for elegance and fine workmanship, may rival the best of the kind in Europe. Glass has also made great progress. The coaches of Mexico have long been... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1837 - 640 էջ
...expected, been a favourite occupation. Services of plate, worth 30,000 or 40,000 dollars, have been manufactured at Mexico, which, for elegance and fine workmanship, may rival the best of the kind in Europe. Glass has also made great progress. The coaches of Mexico have long been... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1839 - 646 էջ
...expected, been a favourite occupation. Services of plate, worth 30,000 or 40,000 dollars, have been manufactured at Mexico, which, for elegance and fine workmanship, may rival the best of the kind in Europe. Glass has also made great progress. The coaches of Mexico have Inn? been... | |
 | Samuel Augustus Mitchell - 1846 - 604 էջ
...expected, been a favourite occupation. Services of plate, worth 30,000 or 40,000 dollars, have been manufactured at Mexico, which, for elegance and fine workmanship, may rival the best of the kind in Europe. Glass has also made great progress. The coaches of Mexico have long been... | |
 | Alexander Dwight Anderson - 1884 - 170 էջ
...than in Mexico. The smallest towns have gold and silversmiths, in whose shops workmen of all castes, whites, mestizoes, and Indians, are employed. The...ever executed in the most civilized parts of Europe." 1 Other Manufactures. In addition to the industries above described it may be mentioned that there... | |
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Indiat, fol. 112. [BOOK v. all casts, whites, mestizoes and Indians are employed. The academy of fine arts, and the schools for drawing in Mexico and Xalapa have very much contributed to diffuse a taste for beautiful antique forms. Services of plate to... 