Notes and Queries, Volym 148–149Oxford University Press, 1925 |
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... portrait of Mrs. Fay in oriental costume . The original When and where was it has disappeared . painted ? Indications point to Calcutta , at a date not earlier than 1783. The portrait was engraved by T. Alais . Who is T. Alais ? E. M. ...
... portrait of Mrs. Fay in oriental costume . The original When and where was it has disappeared . painted ? Indications point to Calcutta , at a date not earlier than 1783. The portrait was engraved by T. Alais . Who is T. Alais ? E. M. ...
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... portrait no head modelled less vivacity than to portraits from the life . He had a great gift of wit , and we fancy he hardly needed to sweep the cobwebs out of his head " -to use Scott's expression in praise Old Crocks ... THIS WEEK ...
... portrait no head modelled less vivacity than to portraits from the life . He had a great gift of wit , and we fancy he hardly needed to sweep the cobwebs out of his head " -to use Scott's expression in praise Old Crocks ... THIS WEEK ...
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... portrait of such a dog on his point , painted by the celebrated Abraham Cooper , R.A. , may be found in the Sporting Magazine for 1827 ; the dog was named Victory , " and was bred in Norfolk .... and but for his thorough Pointer head ...
... portrait of such a dog on his point , painted by the celebrated Abraham Cooper , R.A. , may be found in the Sporting Magazine for 1827 ; the dog was named Victory , " and was bred in Norfolk .... and but for his thorough Pointer head ...
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... portrait etchings . Anslo is a name well known to all who are acquainted with Rembrandt's works . If my memory serves me , the subject of the etching was a doctor and general practitioner at Amsterdam in Rembrandt's days . I have no ...
... portrait etchings . Anslo is a name well known to all who are acquainted with Rembrandt's works . If my memory serves me , the subject of the etching was a doctor and general practitioner at Amsterdam in Rembrandt's days . I have no ...
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... portrait is at the bank . Her father's family may have belonged to the parish of St. Mary Woolnoth , for Hold- brooks were there in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries , and this name was perhaps a variant of Holbrooke ...
... portrait is at the bank . Her father's family may have belonged to the parish of St. Mary Woolnoth , for Hold- brooks were there in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries , and this name was perhaps a variant of Holbrooke ...
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