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Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… that it 'cleanseth the skin wonderfully from all black and blue spots, freckles, morphew, leprosy, foul scars, and other … to a solution of COPPER sulphate so called because of its blue colour. It was used to treat the eyes. In this sense it …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… stiptu'] An old name for a medicinal preparation made from BLUE VITRIOL, ALUM and OIL OF VITRIOL, subsequently called …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… It has not been noted in the Dictionary Archive. The '6 blue artichoke Mustards @ 3d' [Inventories (1790)] listed …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… have been found in Middlesex. A small bronze big-eared boar from Hounslow 91 was possibly used as a fitting for some … B.M. Ibid. 76. In B.M. In L.M. is a forepart of a bronze boar, found in London, which may have been a mount. The boar is not uncommon in Brit. Celtic art and there are in …
Survey of London Monograph
… the only trace of colour on the panels was a uniform grey-blue, under many coats of white. Horace Walpole's Anecdotes … there still exists closely jointed boarding, painted blue on the underside. It is possible that this was exposed … and the plaster was therefore retained and painted blue. The ten pedestals carved in 1637 to carry statues, …
Survey of London
… bas-reliefs in bronze; the upper tier is of ethereal blue, decorated with scrolls in stone colour, and both are … intermediate pannels, which are surrounded with borders of blue and gold, are basreliefs, in stone colour, as large as … scarlet drapery.Adjoining is a small apartment called the blue-room, decorated in a most pleasing and elegant style. …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge
… cross and crozier in saltire or and over all a boar's head argent. 173a. Regius Professors. See Cambridge, … indented or and azure, with an eagle displayed or on the blue, over all on a bend azure a fret between two martlets … quarterly azure and gules, with two fleurs-de-lys on the blue and a lion of England on the red. Crest: on a chapeau …