Half-hour lectures on the history and practice of the fine and ornamental arts (1875)
Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890, Linton, W. J. (William James), 1812-1897, illustrator · New York : Scribner, Welford & Armstrong · leaf 231
d his Taste in High Life in 1742, showingus, in the most ludicrous point of view, the china con- WEDQWOODS PORTLAND VASE. 215 noisseurs of the day. Nothing can be better than theinane expression of the gentleman, a superannuated beau, an old and finished fop,Cork at the heel and feather all at top:… … From Hogarths Taste in High Life. Sir William Hamilton had just returned from the southof Italy when Wedgwoods processes were about completion.He lent some of his specimens from Herculaneum, andothers lent also cameos and antiques of different kinds, allof which were imitated to a miracle by the…
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