The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 339
they are to be purchased, theyproduce incredible prices. Many of them, however,are preserved in the rich collections of the Englishnobility. The etchings of Rembrandt are likewiseexceedingly admired, and collected with great care andexpence, for the cabinets of the curious, in most partsof Europe;… … THE CENTAUR CHIRON INSTRUCTINGACHILLES. REGNAULT. Immediately after the birth of Achilles, the son ofThetis and Peleus, his mother plunged him in the riverStyx, to render him invulnerable, and committed him tothe Centaur Chiron, so famed for his knowledge and skillin physic, in music, and in the…
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