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 107
,by John, first Earl Spencer. A Boys Head. An antique encaustic painting. The inscrip-tion in gilt letters, upon the mahogany frame by which thiscurious treasure is surrounded, is as follows; An AncientEncaustic Painting, found on the walls of a sepulchral Chambernear Beneventum; first opened for… … THE DINING ROOiM. II attestation, tlie spectator might doubt the genuineness of this ex-traordinary peiformance; which has all the freshness and force ofa subject of yesterdays execution. Something like a similar spe-cimen of ancient art will be found in Cayluss Recueil iVAnti-quites Egyptiennes,…
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