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Museum of antiquity; a description of ancient life: the employments, amusements, customs and habits, the cities, palaces, monuments and tombs, the literature and fine arts of 3,000 years ago (1883)

Yaggy, Levi W, Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis), b. 1844 · Alexandria, Va., W.P. Grant & co. · leaf 684

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^ grandly-conceived portraits, such as the numerous likenesses of Alex- … RENOWNED PAINTERS. 657 ander, by whom he was warmly patronized. He not only repre-sented Alexander with the thunderbolt in his hand, but he evenattempted, as the master in light and shade, to paint thunder-storms, probably at the same time as natural scenes and mytho-logical personifications. The…

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