See also:POUND (2)—(a)
a measure of See also:weight; (b) an See also:English See also:money of See also:account
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(a) The English See also:standard unit of weight is the See also:avoirdupois See also:pound of 7000 grains
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The earliest weight in the English See also:system was the Saxon pound, subsequently known as the See also:Tower pound, from the old See also:mint pound kept in the Tower of See also:London
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The Tower pound weighed 5400 grains and this weight of See also:silver was coined into 240 pence or 20 shillings, hence pound in sense (2) (a pound weight of silver)
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The pound See also:troy, probably introduced from See also:France, was in use as See also:early as 1415 and was adopted as the legal standard for See also:gold and silver in 1527
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The See also:act which abolished the Tower pound (18 See also:Hen
.
VIII.: the " pounde Troye which exceedeth the pounde Tower in weight iii quarters of the oz.") substituted a pound of 5760 grains, at which the pound troy still remains
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There was in use together with the pound troy,. the See also:merchant's pound, weighing 6750 grains, which was established about 1270 for all commodities except gold, silver and medicines, but it was generally superseded by the pound avoirdupois about 1330
.
There was also in use for a See also:short 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 another merchant's pound, introduced from France and See also:Germany; this pound weighed 7200 grains
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The pound avoirdupois has remained in use continuously since the 14th See also:century, although it may have varied slightly at different periods—the Elizabethan standard was probably 7002 grains
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The standard pound troy, placed together with the standard yard in the custody of the clerk of the See also:House of See also:Commons by a See also:resolution of the House of the 2nd of See also:June 1758, was destroyed at , the burning of the houses of See also:parliament in 1834
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In 1838 a See also:commission was appointed to consider the restoration of the See also:standards, and in consequence of their See also:report in 1841 the pound avoirdupois of 7000 grains was substituted for the pound troy as the standard
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A new standard pound avoirdupois was made under the direction of a See also:committee appointed in 1834 (which reported in 1854), by comparison with authenticated copies of the See also:original standard (see Phil
.
Trans
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1856)
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This standard pound was legalized by an act of 1855 (18 & 1g Vict. c
.
72)
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The standard avoirdupois pound is made of See also:platinum, in the See also:form of a See also:cylinder nearly 1.35 in. high and 1.15 in. in See also:diameter
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It has a groove or channel See also:round it to enable it to be lifted by means of an See also:ivory See also:fork (for See also:illustration see WEIGHTS AND See also:MEASURES) and is marked " P.S
.
1844
.
T lb." P.S. meaning See also:Parliamentary Standard
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It is preserved at the Standards See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
Office, in the custody of the See also:Board of See also:Trade
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Copies were also deposited at the Houses of Parliament, the Royal Mint, the Royal See also:Observatory and with the Royal Society
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See the Reports of the Standards Commission (6 parts, 1868-1873), especially 3rd report (on the abolition of troy weight) and 5th report (on the business of the Standards Dept. and the See also:condition of the See also:official standards and apparatus; description of the reverification of the various official standards, with diagrams)
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(b) The English monetary unit is the pound; it was originally a pound weight of silver (hence written for See also:libra, See also:Lat. pound weight), coined into twenty shillings, and is now represented by the gold See also:sovereign (q.v.)
.
The pound Scots was at one time of the same value as the English pound, but through See also:gradual debasement of the coinage was reduced at the See also:accession of See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James I. to about one-twelfth of the value of the English pound, and was divided into twenty shillings, each about the value of an English See also:penny
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The See also:Egyptian pound, written LE, is a gold See also:coin of Too piastres, and was made the monetary unit of the See also:country by a See also:decree of the 14th of See also:November 1885
.
Its weight is 8.544 grammes of gold 0.875 See also:fine and its value in English standard gold is 1, os
.
6+d
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The See also:Turkish pound is written T
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The Turkish monetary system is dealt with at length under See also:TURKEY: Monetary System
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Valuable See also:information from the See also:historical point of view will be found in the Reports of the Standards Commission quoted above, and in H
.
W
.
Chisholm's On the See also:Science of Weighing and Measuring (1877) and his Seventh See also:Annual Report as See also:warden of the standards;
R
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Ruding, See also:Annals of the Coinage (1819) and H
.
J
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Chaney, Our See See also:Sandrart, Acad. See also:nob. See also:art
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Pict.; Lettres de See also:Nicolas Poussin
Weights and Measures (1897)
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(T
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A
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I.) POUSSIN, NICOLAS (1594–1665), See also:French painter, was See also:born at See also:Les Andelys (See also:Eure) in June 1594
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Early sketches attracted the See also:notice of Quentin Varin, a See also:local painter, whose See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil Poussin became, till he went to See also:Paris, where he entered the studio of See also:Ferdinand Elle, a See also:Fleming, and then of the Lorrainer L'Allemand
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He found French art in a See also:stage of transition: the old See also:apprenticeship system was disturbed, and the academical See also:schools destined to supplant it were not yet established; but, having met See also:Courtois the mathematician, Poussin was fired by the study of his collection of engravings after See also:Italian masters
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After two abortive attempts to reach See also:Rome, he See also:fell in with the See also:chevalier See also:Marini at See also:Lyons
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Marini employed him on illustrations to his poems, took him into his See also:household, and in 1624 enabled Poussin (who had been detained by commissions in Lyons and Paris) to rejoin him at Rome
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There, his See also:patron having died, Poussin fell into See also:great See also:distress
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Falling See also:ill he was received into the house of his compatriot Dughet and nursed by his daughter See also:Anna Maria to whom in 1629, Poussin was married
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Among his first patrons were See also:Cardinal See also:Barberini, for whom was painted the " See also:Death of Germanicus " (Barberini See also:Palace); Cardinal Omodei, for whom he produced, in 163o, the " Triumphs of See also:Flora " (Louvre); Cardinal de See also:Richelieu, who commissioned a Bacchanal (Louvre) ; Vicenzo See also:Giustiniani, for whom was executed the " See also:Massacre of the Innocents," of which there is a first See also:sketch in the See also:British Museum; Cassiano dal Pozzo, who became the owner of the first See also:series of the " Seven Sacraments " (Belvoir See also:Castle); and Fieart de Chanteloup, with whom in 164o Poussin, at the See also:call of Sublet de Noyers, returned to France
.
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 XIII. conferred on him I the See also:title of " first painter in See also:ordinary," and in two years at Paris he produced several pictures for the royal chapels (the " Last Supper," painted for See also:Versailles, now in the Louvre) and eight cartoons for the Gobelins, the series of the " Labours of See also:Hercules " for the Louvre, the " See also:Triumph of Truth " for Cardinal Richelieu (Louvre), and much See also:minor See also:work
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In 1643, disgusted by the intrigues of See also:Simon See also:Vouet, Feuquieres and the architect See also:Lemercier, Poussin withdrew to Rome
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There, in 1648, he finished for De Chanteloup the second series of the " Seven Sacraments " (See also:Bridgewater See also:Gallery), and also his See also:noble landscape with See also:Diogenes throwing away his See also:Scoop (Louvre); in 1649 he painted the " See also:Vision of St See also:Paul " (Louvre) for the comic poet See also:Scarron, and in 1651 the " See also:Holy See also:Family " (Louvre) for the See also:duke of Crequi
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See also:Year by year he continued to produce an enormous variety of See also:works, many of which are included in the See also:list given by Felibien
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He died on the 19th of November 1665 and was buried in the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St See also:- LAWRENCE
- LAWRENCE (LAURENTIUS, LORENZO), ST
- LAWRENCE, AMOS (1786—1852)
- LAWRENCE, AMOS ADAMS (1814–1886)
- LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)
- LAWRENCE, JOHN LAIRD MAIR LAWRENCE, 1ST BARON (1811-1879)
- LAWRENCE, SIR HENRY MONTGOMERY (1806–1857)
- LAWRENCE, SIR THOMAS (1769–1830)
- LAWRENCE, STRINGER (1697–1775)
Lawrence in See also:Lucina, his wife having predeceased him
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The finest collection of Poussin's paintings as well as of his drawings is possessed by the Louvre; but, besides the pictures in the See also:National Gallery and at See also:Dulwich, See also:England possesses several of his most considerable works: The " Triumph of See also:Pan " is at Baisildon (See also:Berkshire), and his great allegorical See also:painting of the " Arts " at Knowsley
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At Rome, in the See also:Colonna and Valentini Palaces, are notable works by him, and one of the private apartments of See also:Prince See also:Doria is decorated by a great series of landscapes in distemper
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Through-out his See also:life he stood aloof from the popular See also:movement of his native school
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French art in his See also:day was purely decorative, but in Poussin we find a survival of the impulses of the See also:Renaissance coupled with conscious reference -to classic work as the standard of excellence
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In See also:general we see his paintings at a great disadvantage, for the See also:colour, even of the best preserved, has changed in parts, so that the keeping is disturbed; and the noble construction of his designs can be better seen in engravings than in the original
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Amongst the many who have reproduced his works See also:Audran, Claudine Stella, Picart and Pesne are the most successful
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Poussin See also:left no See also:children, but he adopted as his son Gaspar Dughet (Gasparo Duche), his wife's See also:brother, who took the name of Poussin
.
GASPAR POUSSIN (1613–1675) devoted himself to landscape painting and rendered admirably the severer beauties of the See also:Roman Campagna; a noteworthy series of works in See also:tempera representing various sites near Rome is to be seen in the Colonna Palace; but one of his finest easel-pictures, the " See also:Sacrifice of See also:Abraham," formerly the See also:property of the Colonna, is now, with other works by the same painter, in the National Gallery, London
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The frescoes executed by Gaspar Poussin in S
.
Martino di Monti are in a See also:bad See also:state of preservation
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The Louvre does not possess a single work by his See also:hand
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Gaspar died at Rome on the 27th of May 1675
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(Paris, 1824) ; Felibien, Entretiens ; See also:Gault de St Germain, See also:Vie de Nicolas Poussin (18o6); D'Argenville, Abrege de la vie See also:des peintres; Bouchitte, Poussin et son suvre (1858) ; See also:Emilia F
.
S
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See also:Pattison (See also:Lady See also:Dilke), Documents inedits, Le Poussin, in L'Art (1882)
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