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... interest for the general reader - provided always that they are anecdotes worth the telling - the compiler offers the present collection to the public . He is desirous to make known that while the Volume " is , in the main , a compilation ,
... interest for the general reader - provided always that they are anecdotes worth the telling - the compiler offers the present collection to the public . He is desirous to make known that while the Volume " is , in the main , a compilation ,
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... Present Day PAGE I PART II . PICTURES LOST AND STOLEN— - Gainsborough's " Duchess of Devonshire " -The Mutilated Murillo - His Loved and Lost Bordone - Hogarth's " Strolling Players in a Barn " -Some Notable Losses- Destroying an ...
... Present Day PAGE I PART II . PICTURES LOST AND STOLEN— - Gainsborough's " Duchess of Devonshire " -The Mutilated Murillo - His Loved and Lost Bordone - Hogarth's " Strolling Players in a Barn " -Some Notable Losses- Destroying an ...
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... Present - The National Gallery- Academy Headaches - Dying to Paint it - An Infelicitous Critic - A Single Stroke - An Artistic Touch - Artist and Dealer - A Gallant Painter- " High Art - A Wife's Contribution - Wants Hanging - The Art ...
... Present - The National Gallery- Academy Headaches - Dying to Paint it - An Infelicitous Critic - A Single Stroke - An Artistic Touch - Artist and Dealer - A Gallant Painter- " High Art - A Wife's Contribution - Wants Hanging - The Art ...
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... present value ! Only Lawrence is said to have surpassed Landseer in income ; in a monopoly of printshop windows , only Wilkie equalled him . Yet though always suc- cessful , Landseer , like other men , had , as we have seen , his ...
... present value ! Only Lawrence is said to have surpassed Landseer in income ; in a monopoly of printshop windows , only Wilkie equalled him . Yet though always suc- cessful , Landseer , like other men , had , as we have seen , his ...
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... present , no matter which ) ? ' make the most and best you can of it— that method , so long as tenable , will be useful . I know of no other . - Faithfully yours , " J. RUSKIN . " This characteristic epistle was published in January ...
... present , no matter which ) ? ' make the most and best you can of it— that method , so long as tenable , will be useful . I know of no other . - Faithfully yours , " J. RUSKIN . " This characteristic epistle was published in January ...
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