Engraved gems; their history and place in art, in which is embodied the author's former treatise, with extensive revisions and additions; reminiscences of travels in the pursuit and acquisition of engraved gems ... to which is added a descriptive list of the author's cabinet of gems, forming a compend of Greek and Roman classics and antiquities .. (1889)
Sommerville, Maxwell, 1829-1904 · Philadelphia, M. Sommerville · leaf 285
A TEENS. 281 While in the Acropohs looking- on these miisterpieces aconsciousness came over nie that I was Ijreathing: the atmo-sphere of their creators—that I was with them, held conversewith them. Look at the antithesis: below, in the city, I ^Aaswith soulless merchants of gems, men in plaited…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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