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See also:- JOHNSON, ANDREW
- JOHNSON, ANDREW (1808–1875)
- JOHNSON, BENJAMIN (c. 1665-1742)
- JOHNSON, EASTMAN (1824–1906)
- JOHNSON, REVERDY (1796–1876)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD (1573–1659 ?)
- JOHNSON, RICHARD MENTOR (1781–1850)
- JOHNSON, SAMUEL (1709-1784)
- JOHNSON, SIR THOMAS (1664-1729)
- JOHNSON, SIR WILLIAM (1715–1774)
- JOHNSON, THOMAS
JOHNSON, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS , See also:English 18th-See also:century See also:wood-See also:carver and See also:furniture designer. Of excellent repute as a craftsman and an artist in wood, his See also:original conceptions and his adaptations of other men's ideas were remarkable for their extreme flamboyance, and for the merciless manner in which he overloaded them with thin and meretricious See also:ornament. Perhaps his most inept See also:design is that for a table in which a See also:duck or See also:goose is displacing See also:water that falls upon a See also:mandarin, seated, with his See also:head on one See also:side, upon the See also:rail below. No See also:local school of See also:Italian See also:rococo ever produced more extravagant absurdities. His clocks See also:bore scythes and See also:hour-glasses and flashing sunbeams, together with whirls and convolutions and floriated adornments without end. On the other See also:hand, he occasionally produced a See also:mirror See also:frame or a mantelpiece which was See also:simple and dignified. The See also:art of See also:artistic See also:plagiarism has never been so well understood or so dexterously practised as by the 18th-century designers of English furniture, and Johnson appears to have so far exceeded his contemporaries that he must be called a barefaced thief. The three leading " motives " of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time—See also:Chinese, See also:Gothic and See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Quatorze—were mixed up in his See also:work in the most amazing manner; and he was exceedingly fond of introducing human figures, animals, birds and fishes in highly incongruous places. He appears to have defended his enormities on the ground that " all men vary in See also:opinion, and a See also:fault in the See also:eye of one may be a beauty in that of another; 'tis a See also:duty See also:incumbent on an author to endeavour at pleasing every See also:taste." Johnson, who was in business at the " See also:Golden Boy " in See also:Grafton See also:Street, See also:Westminster, published a See also:folio See also:volume of Designs for Picture Frames, Candelabra, Ceilings, &c. (1758); and One See also:Hundred and Fifty New Designs (1761).
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