American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 465
ed himself, occupying a studio ina quaint old stone mansion in Warwick, known as St. Johns House, because it occupies the siteof the hospital of St. John Baptist, founded in the reign of Henry II., by William de Newburgh,Earl of Warwick, to whose descendants it belongs. The present building seems… … In the River. Drawn by Peirce. compare with most in England, and upon improving which, to borrow Sir Walter Scotts words, and the domains around, the Earl of Leicester had, it is said, expended sixty thousand poundssterling, a sum equal to half a million of our present money. The outer wall of this…
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