Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom Collected at Manchester in 1857 (provisional).Bradbury and Evans, 1857 - 207 páginas |
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... manufacture consisted of beads , imitation jewels , & c . , which found a ready market in Asia and Africa . In the 15th century a new direction was given to the manufacture , arising from the capture of Constantinople by the Turks , and ...
... manufacture consisted of beads , imitation jewels , & c . , which found a ready market in Asia and Africa . In the 15th century a new direction was given to the manufacture , arising from the capture of Constantinople by the Turks , and ...
Página 138
... manufacture of glass is still carried on at Murano , its glory has quite departed , and its principal trade is again reduced to beads and ornaments . More even than for the exquisite beauty and delicacy of its contours and proportions ...
... manufacture of glass is still carried on at Murano , its glory has quite departed , and its principal trade is again reduced to beads and ornaments . More even than for the exquisite beauty and delicacy of its contours and proportions ...
Página 139
... manufacture of glass established in England appears to have been in the year 1557 , at the Savoy house in the Strand ; in 1635 a patent was granted to Sir Robert Mansell for glass - making ; but it could not have been on any large or ...
... manufacture of glass established in England appears to have been in the year 1557 , at the Savoy house in the Strand ; in 1635 a patent was granted to Sir Robert Mansell for glass - making ; but it could not have been on any large or ...
Página 140
... manufacture would appear to have been Byzantium , although much was doubtless executed by Byzantine artists employed on valuable works in other countries . 2nd . The Early Limoges school , characterised by a much broader style of Art ...
... manufacture would appear to have been Byzantium , although much was doubtless executed by Byzantine artists employed on valuable works in other countries . 2nd . The Early Limoges school , characterised by a much broader style of Art ...
Página 141
... manufacture , not in France only , but throughout Europe . The method of execution has been termed champlevé , the ground or field cut out ; the material was generally copper , on which the ornamental design or figures to be filled in ...
... manufacture , not in France only , but throughout Europe . The method of execution has been termed champlevé , the ground or field cut out ; the material was generally copper , on which the ornamental design or figures to be filled in ...
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16th century amongst armour artists Bart beau belle bien Birchall British Institution CHARLES chef Collection coloured contributed couleur Dillon Ditto Duke of Newcastle Duke of Portland Earl of Warwick Earl of Yarborough Earl Spencer Edward enamel Engraved examples Exhibited figures Full length GEORGE H.R.H. Prince Albert Half length Hampton Court Henry HOLY FAMILY Inscribed Italian J. M. W. TURNER J. W. GORDON JACOB RUYSDAEL James Jameson's Private Galleries Jameson's Public Galleries John Kensington Palace Kensington Palace Catalogue KING LADY LANDSCAPE LANDSEER Liverpool Catalogue Liverpool Royal Institution Lord de Tabley Lord Overstone Lord Ward MADONNA AND CHILD Majesty Marquis Messrs Orleans Gallery ornamental Oxford Painted peinture PHILIP picture plate PORTRAIT QUEEN R. S. Holford Raphael REMBRANDT Royal Academy SAINTS Sale Catalogue SALOON SCENE Sculptor Smith's Cat Smith's Catalogue specimens Stirling style tableau THOMAS Thos VENICE VIRGIN AND CHILD ware WILLIAM Windsor Castle
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Página 106 - I HAVE observed, that a reader seldom peruses a book with pleasure, till he knows whether the writer of it be a black or a fair man, of a mild or choleric disposition, married or a bachelor, with other particulars of the like nature, that conduce very much to the right understanding of an author.
Página 76 - I painted with most pleasure, and in which I particularly wished to excel, was that of Captain Coram, for the Foundling Hospital ; and if I am so wretched an artist as my enemies assert, it is somewhat strange that this, which was one of the first I painted the size of life, should stand the test of twenty years...
Página 114 - He was in all his deportment a very great man, and that which looked like formality was a punctuality in preserving his dignity from the invasion and intrusion of bold men, which no man of that age so well preserved himself from.
Página 138 - China's the passion of her soul; A cup, a plate, a dish, a bowl, Can kindle wishes in her breast, Inflame with joy, or break her rest.
Página 116 - He was not tall ; but of the lowest stature, round faced, olivaster, (like wainscott) complexion ; little eie, round, very black, full of spirit ; his haire was black as a raven, but quite white 20 yeares before he dyed. I first sawe him at Oxford, 1642, after Edgehill fight, but was then too young to be acquainted with so great a doctor.
Página 76 - I was paid two hundred pounds, (which was more than any English artist ever received for a single portrait,) and that too by the sanction of several painters who had been previously consulted about the price, which was not given without mature consideration.
Página 108 - Molyneux's and mine, the last he drew ; and this is necessary to be done, or else the pictures of private persons are lost in two or three generations ; and so the picture loses of its value, it being not known whom it was made to represent.
Página 117 - He was a man of honour, and of courage, and would have been an excellent person, if his heart had not been set too much upon the keeping and improving his estate...
Página 107 - Almost as few charms can be discovered in his favourite Jane Shore, preserved at Eton, and probably an original, as her confessor was provost of that college, and by her intercession recovered their lands, of which they had been despoiled, as having owed their foundation to Edward's competitor. In this picture her forehead is remarkably large, her mouth and the rest of her features small ; her hair of the admired golden colour...
Página 105 - Roundheads of note in real buff and armour as are here assembled upon canvas. Windsor and Hampton Court cannot vie with the Lely and Kneller beauties of the Restoration that smile (in the Central Hall of the Manchester Exhibition) upon the heroes of the Civil War.