Collector's luck; or, A repository of pleasant and profitable discourses descriptive of the household furniture and ornaments of olden time.. (1919)
Carrick, Alice Van Leer, 1875- · Boston, The Atlantic monthly press · leaf 120
boroughthat I simply had to have it. It is from an early por-trait, one of the few interesting pieces of work done bythat stupid, vaporing Kneller, and below, in fadedbrown ink, are the words, 13 July 1710, Paid in full,S. Marlborough. Sarah before she had cut off hercurls in a tantrum and flung… … The pair of which this is one—they hang in the PrettiestRoom—are the oldest: the dress, the despair, the attitude ofthat melancholy gentleman, all are Byronic. The mate to thisvalentine will be found on the following page. 546377/\ r
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