Essays on the Eighteenth Century, Presented to David Nichol Smith in Honour of His Seventieth BirthdayClarendon Press, 1945 - 288 pages |
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... Italy six - on foot , once or twice . Many artists dealt ; for instance Leonard Knyff , the topographic draughts ... Italian travel as well . Professional experts ( as we call them ) were artist - dealers , like Laroon who bought for Sir ...
... Italy six - on foot , once or twice . Many artists dealt ; for instance Leonard Knyff , the topographic draughts ... Italian travel as well . Professional experts ( as we call them ) were artist - dealers , like Laroon who bought for Sir ...
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... Italy , studying in academies at Venice , Bologna , and Rome , where a school for them had been founded by English noblemen and gentry . We might suppose that when political restrictions were removed , and the Channel and Alps crossed ...
... Italy , studying in academies at Venice , Bologna , and Rome , where a school for them had been founded by English noblemen and gentry . We might suppose that when political restrictions were removed , and the Channel and Alps crossed ...
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... Italy or the Low Countries , early in the century , was less interested in mural decorations than the latest taste in portraiture . It is easier to understand his indifference to History painting than the phenomenon of Reynolds ...
... Italy or the Low Countries , early in the century , was less interested in mural decorations than the latest taste in portraiture . It is easier to understand his indifference to History painting than the phenomenon of Reynolds ...
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THE CONCISENESS OF SWIFT HERBERT DAVIS Smith College | 33 |
THE INSPIRATION OF POPES POETRY JOHN BUTT Bedford | 65 |
WHERE ONCE STOOD THEIR PLAIN HOMELY DWELL | 80 |
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