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The portfolio : an artistic periodical (1870)

Whistler, James McNeill · London : Seeley,Jackson and Halliday · leaf 140

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oe) Pe On a aE | t. Sy iS ES ae 4 Offa di sta (anu er eo | mn p53 5 GF > gant efter as) IR =e NE a q. = 7 3S of WR AS ae aA ae NWSE Paris, a monk of the Church of blessed Alban, a man indeed eloquent and famous, endowed with innumerable virtues, a great historian and chronicler, constantly turning… … a subtlety in the working of gold and silver and other metals, and in carving sculptures and painting pictures, that he is believed to have left no second in the whole Latin world.’ It may well have been out of consideration for his gifts as an artist that this accomplished monk was admitted into…

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