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led up to and left no successors may be dis- 

 missed, for the work is too scholarly to have 

 come from any one but a trained sculptor. 

 I refer of course to those figures which the 

 artist must be supposed to have executed with 

 his own hand, as, for example, the central 

 figure of the Crucifixion group and those of 

 the Magdalene and St. John. The greater 

 number of the figures were probably, as was 

 suggested to me by Mr. Ranshaw, of Lowth, 

 executed by a local woodcarver from models 

 in clay and wax furnished by the artist him- 

 self. Those who examine the play of line in 

 the hair, mantle, and sleeve of the Magdalene 

 in the Crucifixion group, and contrast it with 

 the greater part of the remaining draperies, 

 will find little hesitation in concluding that 

 this was the case, and will ere long readily 

 distinguish the two hands from which the 

 figures have mainly come. I say " mainly," 

 because there is at least one other sculptor 

 who may well have belonged to the year 

 1709, but who fortunately has left us little. 

 Examples of his work may perhaps be seen 



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