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 281
s his help-mate, possessed those external charms 268 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. which are essential in the model wife of a painter, the rich casket did not contain that only pearl ofprice—a virtiions heart. Yain, inconsider ite, coquettish, fond of dress, pleasure, and admiration, the… … Vanity led, as it so often does, to the sacrifice of virtue. Her husband discovered that she wasfaithless, by a device borrowed from the old mythology, and not exactly fit to be recorded here. Atany rate it exposed the false wife and treacherous guest to universal contempt and ridicule,…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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