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Royal palaces & gardens (1916)

Nixon, Mima, illustrator, Calthrop, Dion Clayton, 1878-1937 · London: A. & C. Black, Ltd. · leaf 161

An illustration from Royal palaces & gardens, 1916, leaf 161
inedlove for the names of places he learned aboutat school, the names which resound throughall literature and are the fete names of all the arts. From the tree-shaded garden-alleys of theRoyal Palace there are charming glimpses of theAcropolis, the Propylaea, the Erechtheum, theParthenon crowning… … The Royal Palace, Athens THE ROYAL PALACE, ATHENSonce it belonged to a Garden of the Muses.King Georges children looked down from theirnursery windows on this green garden, andon some palm trees and umbrella pines whichhe planted himself. The enthusiasm for Greek Independence, feltso keenly in…

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