Old Humphrey's Walks in London and Its NeighbourhoodReligious Tract Society, sold at the depository, 56, Paternoster Row, and 65 St. Paul's Churchyard, 1846 - London (England) - 352 pages |
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Page 77
... paintings of this accomplished master , is truly astonishing . Claude , thou wert , indeed , a painter ! The vigour and vivid colouring of some of the pictures of Rubens are also wonderful . There is so much of bloom upon the flesh , so ...
... paintings of this accomplished master , is truly astonishing . Claude , thou wert , indeed , a painter ! The vigour and vivid colouring of some of the pictures of Rubens are also wonderful . There is so much of bloom upon the flesh , so ...
Page 128
... paintings called the Kalorama . These paintings are in the new relievo style , and their effect is excellent . In the lectures you will learn something to raise your admiration of Him , of whose creation we know so little . After all ...
... paintings called the Kalorama . These paintings are in the new relievo style , and their effect is excellent . In the lectures you will learn something to raise your admiration of Him , of whose creation we know so little . After all ...
Page 295
... painted ceiling , and especially when the subject is an ethereal one . The whole of the ceiling paintings - Phœbus in his Car , Pandora and the assembled gods and goddesses , the Seasons , Night with the Pleiades , Epimetheus receiving ...
... painted ceiling , and especially when the subject is an ethereal one . The whole of the ceiling paintings - Phœbus in his Car , Pandora and the assembled gods and goddesses , the Seasons , Night with the Pleiades , Epimetheus receiving ...
Contents
Old Humphreys City Gratifications | 1 |
The Tower of London | 11 |
St Pauls Cathedral | 27 |
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