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Old and New London
… Her Majesty's death and the break-up of the club, the picture was purchased by the corporation of the loyal city of …
Old and New London
… at the other. There is a mezzotint print of this picture, or the sign may have been taken from the print, and … "Microcosm of London," published in 1808, there is a picture of its interior, as it was a few years previously, in … on the heads and shoulders of their neighbours. The whole picture is a study, and gives a far more perfect idea of such …
Old and New London
… near Spring Gardens. Strype, the historian, gives us a picture of the Princess Elizabeth's life during the reign of …
Old and New London
… very recent date say that in the back parlour there was a picture of a jolly and bluff-looking man in a red coat, who … the top of a pillar was often one of the accessories in a picture of the Apostle. This certainly was a very unkind …
A History of the County of Hertford
… the chancel are of the date of the restoration. The large picture of the Agony in the Garden in the south transept was …
A History of the County of Hertford
… above the houses on the west side, still forms a pleasant picture. On account of its being on the main line of the …
Old and New London
… always vivacious and amusing, tells a story of a libellous picture of the Last Supper placed above the altar in this … the Bishop of London interfered, and caused the obnoxious picture to be removed. It was afterwards replaced, but the … clothes and frippery are sold." Pennant gives a humorous picture of the barter going on there, and says, "The articles …
Old and New London
… 29) was a handsome wainscoted room, adorned with a great picture, erroneously attributed to Holbein, and representing … father, and who is now confined for life in Broadmoor. The picture is now at Bedlam. There was a fine full-length of …
Survey of London
… young man was most finely working in Indian inke the great picture of the King and Queen sitting, by Van Dyke." Now the … Gallery was (at any rate in the time of Charles I) the picture gallery par excellence in the Palace. There were 102 … on pedestals in every window. 256 Among others was a picture by Vandyck which seems to be the one referred to …
Survey of London
… Mr. Vanderdoort to bee used for the drawing of his Ma ts Picture" 84 introduces us to what was perhaps the most … of Adam and Eve" (see p. 100), "mending and repairing a picture of Holbyon," "repairing an old Dutch peece" and … was for a time deserted. A graphic, but perhaps overdrawn, picture of its emptiness and desolation is contained in a …