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 80
GR^CO-EOMAN. During a long period of wars before the reign of Augustus,Greece, Asia Minor, and Egypt had been despoiled of theirmost sublime art-decorations. The classic artists of Greece,seeing their occupation at home in a measure gone, and long-insr to be affain suri-ounded bv the great works of…
Gems · Classical antiquities
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