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John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)

Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 270

An illustration from John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools, 1858, leaf 270
n England, though it may, perhaps, havebeen the origin of our game of bagatelle orbilliards. The ball is impelled by the hand alongthe deal board, and not by a cue, as in the twolatter games. The painting, from which our en-graving is taken, is valuable from the life-likepicture it gives of a Dutch… … 258 JOHN CASSELLS ART TI^EASURES EXIinsiTlON. * cherishing. The dilapidated facing of the antiquated cabaret at the entrance to which the Dutchboers are boozing; the grouping of the different figures; the lazy kind of attention which thespectator is bestowing on the progress of the game; the design…

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