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 341
in a basin on thetnrf. The spoon of large dimensions patiently awaits its turn toserve the prince, the heir-apparent to the king of all inebriates,more placidly than does the nrcliin his idaymate, who leansoer the schoolmasters shoulder smacking his lips and wishinghe too could learn. … STATUES OF THE NILE AND TIBER. There are several gems in my cabinet—the ^EseulapiusA\itli Telesplionxs, No. 34, Case C ; the water-worn Emperorsjxirtrait, formerly the property of General Bliicher, Xo. 113,Case G; the beautiful fragment of Neptune, No. 56, Case D;the large official Egyptian ring.…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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