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An outline history of painting for young people and students (1883)

Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, White, Stokes, & Allen · leaf 25

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t,says that some paintings were found in the Palace of Sar-gon ; they represented gods, lions, rosettes, and variousother designs ; but when he reached Nineveh, one yearafter these discoveries, the pictures had all disappeared—the colors which had been buried twenty-five hundred yearslasted but a… … Fig. 3.—Fragment of ais AbbYKiAN Tile-painting. ASSYRIA, BABYLON. II fragments no complete picture has been put together. Thelargest one was found at Nimrud, and our ihustration istaken from it. It represents a king, as we know by thetiara he wears, and two servants who follow him. The pic-tures to…

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