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 410
A ruin! Yet what ruin ! From its mass, Walls, palaces, half cities have been reared. Yet oft the enormous skeleton ye pass, And marvel where her spoil could have appeared. Hath it, indeed, been plundered, or but cleared ? Alas ! developed, opens the decay. When the colossal fabrics form is neared.… … THE DESCENT FROM THE CROSS. FROM A PAINTING BY JOHN JOUVENET. 398 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. * While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand;When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall;And when Rome falls— the world ! From our own landThus spake the pilgrims oer this mighty wall.In Saxon…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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