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position, and, in f;ict. must have blocked the view 

 which had been ol)tai]U d at great expense necessi 

 tating the removal of the old garden mount and 

 (he newly-built water gallery. It \vas removed 

 some time prior to ijSj, when the lion. Dailies 

 Harrington described it to the Society of Antiqnarie- 

 as forming part of the &quot; magnificent gates and 

 rails of iron,&quot; extending parallel to the Thames 

 lor six hundred yards. One of the twelve panels 

 with their pilasters formed a break at intervals of 

 titty yards, and a set of the larger gates formed a 

 centre, and the plain rails between are perhaps 

 those which stretched the whole width of the east 

 or garden front of the Palace. The panels were 

 removed in 18(15 to South Kensington Museum, 

 then scantily filled, and later were distributed 

 over other museums ; they have recently, after 

 somewhat injudicious restoration, been replaced 

 on their old foundations at the end ol the Privy 

 (larden hv the river. No such sumptuous garden 

 screen has been produced before or since. 



The novelty ol Tijon s work consisted in his 

 lavish use of sheet iron, embossed info acanthus 

 leaves, rosettes, masks, garlands, crowns and various 

 insignia, in the French manner, not previously seen 

 in hngland, in such prolusion, indeed, as almost to 

 conceal the loigings. It i- quite dear from the 

 book of designs published bv Tijou in lOio that he 

 was a practical designer of embossing, and not of 

 smith s work, which he did not at that time under 

 stand. He probably worked personally at least on 

 expression and of a fine character 

 patron, Queen Mary, and all his 

 be executed before her death, Fstimates for 

 fittingly expressed in the French manner, on the title-pa 

 Juno, attended by Vulcan, Mercury, Saturn, Amoriui and 



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the masks and difficult piece 



them 



were 



for they are lull of 



never attained by anyone else. He met at the outset&quot; his greatest 

 sumptuous designs for Hampton Court were made and arranged to 



apparently not required. Hi- gratitude is 

 e of his book. There the Queen reclines as 

 a group of the Arts, inspecting -pecimens 

 ol the work. Tijou 

 also appears to have 

 had a tree hand at 

 Burleigh. at Chats- 

 worth and a lew places 

 elsewhere ; but the 

 Oueen s early death 

 was a blow from which 

 he perhap^ never quite 

 recovered. \Vhen\vork 

 w as r e s u in e d a t 

 Hampton Court after 

 an interval of four 

 y ears. Tijou was 

 required to give esti 

 mates, and only one 

 niece of his rich work 

 was r e q u i r e d , the 

 balustrade for the 

 King s staircase 

 designed while the 

 Queen was living. 

 The King s death in 

 1702 deprived him of 



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