Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer (1814)
Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834, Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847, John Rylands Library · London · leaf 103
demonstrate the talents of Sophonisba. rasari, Pt. iii. p. 561-3. Edit. 1568. * Pilkington, after Baldinucei, says that by continual application to herprofession, she lost her sight; and it is recorded that Vandyke, having had anopportunity of conversing with Sophonisba, used to say, that he… … THE DINING ROOM. 9 pieces—it is difficult to conceive. The only other acknowledo-edspecimens of her talents, in England, is the Marriage of St. Ca-therine, in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton; and a small head of Sophonisba, in a round, in Lord Ashburn-hams collection. The present…