Oriental carpets, runners and rugs and some Jacquard reproductions .. (1910)
Humphries, Sydney, 1862-1941 · London, A. and C. Black · leaf 208
e will be able to takeits stand at the tribunal of Art Judgment of the Nations, and be ableto bear comparison with ancient Greece, which is associated for alltime with the name of Pericles, although in other respects his namemight well have been counted among the lost, as he was probablyshrewd… … Contemporary Arts related in Sir E. Bulwer-Lyttons uncompleted Athens, its Rise andFall, that Pericles, having been accused of too lavishly squanderingthe public funds on the new buildings which adorned the city,answered to the great tribunal before which he urged his defence, If you think that I…
Jacquard, Joseph-Marie, 1752-1834 · `Abbas I, Shah of Iran, 1571-1629 · Rugs, Oriental
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