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Needlework as art (1886)

Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess, 1817-1888 · London, S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington · leaf 51

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(Fig. i.) 1 See chapter on stitches, cut work {post). This funeral tent is amonumental work, inasmuch as the inscription inwrought on it gives usthe name and title of her in whose honour it was made, and whoseremains it covered. See Villiers Stewarts Funeral Tent of anEgyptian Queen. - Herodotus,… … Egyptian corselet. (WilkinsonsAncient Egyptians.) Style. 21 The Phoenicians imbibed and reproduced the stylesthey met with in their voyages. The bowls found inCyprus described and engraved in the September numberof the Magazine of Art (1SS3), are most interestingillustrations of the meeting of two…

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