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An architect's note-book in Spain : principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country (1872)

Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir, 1820-1877 · London : Autotype Fine Art Company · leaf 375

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attention of the many despoiling locusts—native as well as foreign—who have done their best at different times to devour the land. Ofsuch, a specimen is given in the knowing little knocker, or door-handle illustrated in my eighty-first sketch. It is no doubt a joke onthe part of some cunning smith,… … PLATE LXXXII. SARAGOSSA, VIEW OF THE PATIO OF THE PALACIO DE LA INFANTA. PONZ speaks with great complacency of the sumptuousness otthe houses of Saragossa—particularly those with columns, (suchas that of the Marques de Monistol) and those the Patios of which areadorned with sculptures— such costly…

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