The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River |
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The west window , painted in chiaro oscuro , was done after a design of Schwartz : there is somewhat of grandeur in the whole , which represents the Resurrection ; but the beauty of the painting is much impaired .
The west window , painted in chiaro oscuro , was done after a design of Schwartz : there is somewhat of grandeur in the whole , which represents the Resurrection ; but the beauty of the painting is much impaired .
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The painted glass by Jervaise , after designs by Sir Joshua Reynolds , and the architectural additions by Wyatt , have combined to produce a most solemn and striking effect on the mind . If devotion may be supposed to receive an added ...
The painted glass by Jervaise , after designs by Sir Joshua Reynolds , and the architectural additions by Wyatt , have combined to produce a most solemn and striking effect on the mind . If devotion may be supposed to receive an added ...
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The Church of the College is the cathedral of the diocese , which contains nothing remarkable but the stone roof and some beautiful paintings on ' glass . — The quadrangle called Peckwater , is an elegant enriched building of the Ionic ...
The Church of the College is the cathedral of the diocese , which contains nothing remarkable but the stone roof and some beautiful paintings on ' glass . — The quadrangle called Peckwater , is an elegant enriched building of the Ionic ...
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The saloon is adorned with pictures by Cuyp , G. Poussin , Titian , Rembrandt , & c . among which there is a head of an old man , by Elmer , so well known for his excellence as a painter of dead game , & c . It is a very finely painted ...
The saloon is adorned with pictures by Cuyp , G. Poussin , Titian , Rembrandt , & c . among which there is a head of an old man , by Elmer , so well known for his excellence as a painter of dead game , & c . It is a very finely painted ...
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... painted in the habit of St. Francis , and in the act of tapping the globe , the cock protruding from the province of Champagne , in France . Fay ce que voudras , the appropriate motto of the last order , was inscribed , and still ...
... painted in the habit of St. Francis , and in the act of tapping the globe , the cock protruding from the province of Champagne , in France . Fay ce que voudras , the appropriate motto of the last order , was inscribed , and still ...
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| Title | The Thames: Or Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River Volume 1 of The Thames; Or, Graphic Illustrations of Seats, Villas, Public Buildings, and Picturesque Scenery, on the Banks of that Noble River, William Bernard Cooke |
| Author | Samuel Owen |
| Illustrated by | William Bernard Cooke, Samuel Owen |
| Publisher | Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, 1811 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Oct 20, 2007 |
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