STATUE or JOAN OF ARC, If]^ 



But In tlie mean time the cafes had been placed one over Uie 

 other, and the iron pins which connc6^ed ihcra fitted lo their 

 places, taking care to divide them into two portions, which 

 anfwered to the two cafes ufually employed by the founders; 

 and which, inftead of the ufual thicknefs of five centimetres 

 at raolf, were, the one 48 and the other 6i centimetres 

 thick* 



In this ftate they were dried, by placing them round a bra- The pieces of 

 fier of kindled charcoal, the fire of which had the more power ^^^ '"°''' ^''^^' 

 from the mold being divided into two portions, and empty. 



The core was likewife dried by placing it over a brafier ofThe coreal/o 

 charcoal; the fame was aifo placed round it; and in eight "^ ' 

 hours the moifiure was entirely evaporate/i. It was left to 

 cool, and it was placed in one half of the mold ; the fecond ThemQlJ and 

 half of the mold was afterwards fitted on, and the whole com- ^f"^ puttjge- 



' tner ready for 



prefied together by iron prefles in the ufual manner. cafting, and i"e- 



After this there only remained lo conllrud the bafon, <=""'^>y P^effes, 

 (Veckino), to fufe the metal, and make the caft. Thefe ope- 

 rations being the fame for both methods of founding, (liall be 

 related, after firft as briefly as poflible defcribing the method 

 of cafting by the great foundery in which wax is ufed. 



The firft operation for the great foundery is to dig a trench Dercription of 

 proportionate to the fize of the figure to be caft, and to fur- <^afting by the 

 I ■ • I 11 ' 1 I r 11 • great foundery. 



4^una it With a wall to prevent the earth trom tumblmg m. 



After the model is fini filed it is oiled, and a mold formed from a mold formed 

 it with plafter of Paris in the ufual way, and with the pre- ^''*^'" '^^ ^^^"c 



in iCDHr^cc 



cautions before direded for molding in fand : In each piece pieces. 

 of this mold rods of iron are inferted, by which they may be 

 eafily lifted when the mold is taken afundpr or put up; each 

 of thefe pieces is numbered, that its proper place may be 

 known. 



After this feveral layers are applied with a brufli to (he in- A compofidon 



fide of the pieces, of a compofition made of 7-lenths of yellow ^^ '"^^. '^''! °" 

 f^ ' • ■' to the infideof 



wax, 1-tenth of turpentine, Itenth of white pitch, and the mold, of th« 

 I-tenth of hog's-lard, wjiich is melted flowly to prevent if^ '""^''"*'^^ '"- 



r . , , , , ^ ^ tended for the 



tormmg bubbles. bronze. 



When the different layers form a thicknefs cf three or four 

 millimetres, (0. 15 inch) cakes of wax are placed infide in (h(Me 

 parts where the bronze fliould be of a greater thicknefs, and faf- 

 tenings of (heet-brafs are inferted, which may take hold of the 

 core and prevent the wax from falling cfT, 



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