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 466
royal hunt! What luxury and magnificence distinguished the last momentsof the expiring roe ! The sporting establishment of the king consisted of a host, whose maintenance must have costupwards of a million per annum. The forests in the neighbourhood of Paris were kept with the FRANCIS BESPORTfig.… … THE HOUNDS. FROM A PAINTING BY DESPORTES. and at Fontainebleau. Those woods, so silent and solitary for nine months of the year, were suddenlyinstinct with life. On every side huntsmen and whippers-in were watching for the moment when 454 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. the object of tlie…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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