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 347
n bones. These guides do not take a stranger directly to the goal, lesthe should too quickly learn the way: they lead and twist youround manv corners as they will. Tliis man conducted me bynarrow wavs, not streets, in a directi(^)n I never since couldfind. However, we arrived at the musemn of an… … ELEVEN THOUSAND VIRGINS. 343 wood and bone, and basso-rilievos on stone. The purchaseof No. 761, Case T T, the cameo of Raphael by AlbrechtDiirer, signed b} liini S 1514, completed the hours pleasure.No, not quite, for now and then this Eaphael reminds me ofthose crooked lanes that brought me to…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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