Hamerton, Philip Gilbert, 1834-1894 · Boston, Roberts brothers · leaf 82
t wasthe Rue de la Pelleterie. It had a fine backgroundtowards the west in the buildings of the Palace of Justice,with the picturesque corner tower, and it inspired artistswith the desire to make pictures of it.^ I wonder whatartist would care to paint the same scene to-day. Instead 1 A drawing of… … A Voyage rowtd the Island. 47 of the pleasant open space which so charmingly disen-gaged the buildings of the Palace, we have now a great,heavy, ornate, and vulgar modern edifice with a dome,— the Tribunal de Commerce; just one of those erec-tions which the Philistines always consider very…
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