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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 489 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOD , indicating See also:

Low See also:Ordinary Dreiband (Threeband). OD, „ Ordinary Dreiband. D, Dreiband. HD, See also:Light Dreiband. R, Risten. G, Cut. See also:Marienburg. See also:Pernau See also:flax is shipped as Livonian and Fellin sorts, the latter being the best. Both See also:dew-retted and See also:water-retted flax are exported from St See also:Peters-See also:burg, the dew-retted or Slanitz flax being marked 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th See also:Crown, also Zebrack No. i and Zebrack No. 2, while all the See also:Archangel flax is dew-vetted. Some See also:idea of the extent of the See also:Russian flax See also:trade may be gathered from the fact that 233,000 tons were exported in 1905. Out of this quantity a little over 53,000 tons came to the See also:United See also:Kingdom.

The thief See also:

British ports for the landing of flax are:—See also:Belfast, See also:Dundee, See also:Leith, See also:Montrose, See also:London and See also:Arbroath, the two former being the See also:chief centres of the flax See also:industry. The following table, taken from the See also:annual See also:report of the Belfast Flax See also:Supply Association, shows the quantities received from all See also:sources into the different parts of the United Kingdom :— per ton, M, „ occasionally also attempting diversions into the See also:sister See also:art of See also:painting. To the See also:Academy he contributed a See also:wax See also:model of See also:Neptune (1770); four portrait See also:models in wax (1771); a terra-See also:cotta bust, a wax figure of a See also:child, a figure of See also:History (1772); a figure of See also:Comedy, and a See also:relief of a Vestal (1793). During these years he received a See also:commission from it friend of the See also:Mathew See also:family, fora statue of See also:Alexander. But by heroic and ideal See also:work of this class he could, of Course, make no See also:regular livelihood. The means of such a livelihood, however, presented themselves in his twentieth See also:year, when he first received employment from See also:Josiah See also:Wedgwood and his partner See also:Bentley, as a modeller of classic and domestic friezes, plaques, ornamental vessels and medallion portraits, in those varieties of " See also:jasper" and " See also:basalt" See also:ware which earned in their See also:day so See also:great a reputation for the manufacturers who had conceived and perfected the invention. In the same year, 1775, See also:John See also:Flaxman the See also:elder moved from New See also:Street, Covent See also:Garden, to a more commodious See also:house in the Strand (No. 420). For twelve years, from his twentieth to his See also:thirty-second (1775-1787), Flaxman subsisted chiefly by his work for the See also:firm of Wedgwood. It may be urged, of the See also:minute refinements of figure outline and modelling which these manufacturers aimed at in their ware, that they were not the qualities best suited to such a material; or it may be regretted that the gifts of an artist like Flaxman should have been spent so See also:long upon such a See also:minor and See also:half-See also:mechanical art of See also:household decoration; but the beauty of the product it would be idle to deny, or the value of the training which the sculptor by this practice acquired in the delicacies and severities of modelling in low relief and on a minute See also:scale. By 1780 Flaxman had begun to See also:earn something in another See also:branch of his profession, which was in the future to furnish his chief source of livelihood, viz. the See also:sculpture of monuments for the dead. Three of the earliest of such monuments by his See also:hand are those of See also:Chatterton in the See also:church of St See also:Mary Redcliffe at See also:Bristol (1780), of Mrs See also:Morley in See also:Gloucester See also:cathedral (1784), and of the Rev.

Ti. and Mrs See also:

Margaret See also:Ball in the cathedral at See also:Chichester (1785). During the See also:rest of Flawman's career memorial bas-reliefs of the same class occupied a See also:principal See also:part ofhis industry; they are to be found scattered in many churches throughout the length and breadth of See also:England, and in them the finest qualities of his art are represented. The best are admirable for pathos and simplicity, and for the See also:alliance of a truly See also:Greek See also:instinct for rhythmical See also:design and See also:composition with that spirit of domestic tenderness and innocence which is one of the secrets of the See also:modern soul. In 1782, being twenty-seven years old, Flaxman was married to See also:Anne See also:Denman, and had in her the best of helpmates until almost his See also:life's end. She was a woman of attainments in letters and to some extent in art, and the devoted See also:companion of her See also:husband's fortunes and of his travels. They set up house at first in Wardour Street, and lived an industrious life, spending their summer holidays once and again in the house of the hospitable poet See also:Hayley, at Eartham in See also:Sussex. After five years, in 1787, they found themselves with means enough to travel, and set out for See also:Rome, where they took up their quarters in the Via Felice. Records more numerous and more consecutive of Flaxman's See also:residence in See also:Italy exist in the shape of drawings and studies than in the shape of See also:correspondence. He Soon ceased modelling himself for Wedgwood, but continued to See also:direct the work of other modellers employed for the manufacture at Rome. He had intended to return after a stay of a little more than two years, but was detained by a commission for a See also:marble See also:group of a Fury of See also:Athamas, a commission attended in the sequel with circumstances of See also:infinite trouble and annoyance, from the notorious See also:Comte-Eveque, See also:Frederick See also:Hervey, See also:earl of Bristol and See also:bishop of Derry. He did not, as things See also:fell out, return until the summer' of 1794, after an See also:absence of seven years,--having in the meantime executed another ideal commission {a Cephalus and See also:Aurora ") for Mr See also:Hope, and having sent See also:home models for several sepulchral monuments, including one in relief for the poet See also:Collins in Chichester cathedral, and one in the See also:round for See also:Lord See also:Mansfield in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey. Year.

Imports to Imports to Imports to the United See also:

Ireland. England and Kingdom. See also:Scotland. Tons. Tons. Tons. 1895 102,622 33,506 67,116 1896 95,199 36,65o 58,549 1897 98,802 37,715 61,087 1898 97,253 34,440 62,813 1899 99,052 40,145 58,907 1900 71,586 31,563 40,023 1901 75,565 28,785 46,78o 1902 73,611 29,727 43,884 1903 94,701 38,168 56,533 1904 74,917 33,024 41,893 1905 90,098 40,063 50,035 The extent of flax cultivation in Ireland is considerable, but the acreage has been gradually diminishing during See also:late years. In 1864 it reached the maximum, 301,694 acres; next year it fell to 251,433. After 1869 it declined, there being 229,252 acres in flax See also:crop that year, and only 122,003 in 1872. From this year to 1889 it fluctuated considerably, reaching 157,534 acres in 188o and dropping to 89,225 acres in 1884. Then for five successive years the acreage was above 1o8,000. From 1890 to 7905 it only once reached roo,000, while the See also:average in 1903, 1904 and 1905 was a little over 45,000 acres.

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