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 35
thence it came to England in the lastcentury, and after twice changing ownership, at the death ofthe Duchess of Portland, from wliom it takes its name, it wassold to the Duke of Marlborough, and is now in the Ih-itishMuseum. It has been In-oken and mended. It is about teninches high, and at the… … PORTLAND VASE.
Gems · Classical antiquities
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