Etruscan Roman remains in popular tradition (1892)
Leland, Charles Godfrey, 1824-1903 · London, T. F. Unwin · leaf 391
All of his madonnas, like mine, have gold backgrounds. The picture was fearfully dilapidated, but with gesso and gouache colours, andwhite of eggs, and gum, and gold, I restored it so that it seems better than new,for it looks every whit of its four hundred and fifty years, or even older. But…
Folklore · Superstition
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![An illustration from L'art de tirer les cartes : révélations complètes sur les destinées au moyen des cartes et des tarots d'après les méthodes les plus certaines, suivis d'un jeu des patiences / par Johannès Trismégiste [i.e. Lorambert]. Orné de 150 figures. (1845)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/wellcome-wellcome_b28750640-97-1.webp)
