Sherman, Frederic Fairchild · New York, Priv. print. · leaf 126
small oilpainting, a portrait of his mother as an old lady, ona panel approximately three by five inches or so.It is one of the best pieces of portraiture **in littlethat I know of in American art. I do not recall 59 26292115 another that reproduces so accurately such anindication of old age as the… … ERHAPS the unanimity with whichthe greatest of EngHsh painters re-sponded toward the end of the eight-eenth century to the scheme of JohnBoydell for forming a ShakespeareGallery illustrates most forcibly theprevailing estimate of historic composition as thehighest achievement in the realm of…
Painting, American · Painters, American
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![An illustration from Architectura curiosa nova, exponens 1. Fundamenta hydragogica, indolemq[ue] aquæ, aëris interventu in altum levandæ. 2. Varios aquarum ac salientium fontium lusus per varia spectatu jucunda epistomiorum seu siphonum genera. 3. Magnum amnissimorum fontium, machinarumq[ue] aquæductoriarum sumtu magno exstructarum, ac per Italiam, Britanniam, Germaniam &c. visendarum, numerum. 4. Specus artificiales sumtuosissimas, cum plerisq[ue] principum europæorum palatiis, hortis, aulis; nec non præcipuis monasteriis atq[ue] arcibus. 5. Cum auctario figurarum elegantissimarum, ad hortorum topiaria vario ductù dividenda, nec non conclavium laquearibus ac pavimentis segmentandis, itemq[ue] labyrinthis construendis, adhibendarum. Omnia 200 æri incisis... descripta (1664)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-architecturacuri00bock-17-11.webp)
