The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics (1809)
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834 · London : Published by R. Ackermann ... Sherwood & Co. and Walker & Co. ... and Simpkin & Marshall ... · leaf 468
be thatof Necho, the father of Psammis,who had, according to Herodotus,wars with the Jews, Babylonians,and Ethiopians. We cannot enterinto the elaborate description ofthe paintings in this tomb: as worksof art, they must be consideredwith reference to the age of re-mote antiquity in which they… … INTELLIGENCE, LITKttAttY, SCIENTIFIC, &C. .377 early ages, the study of anatomywas discouraged by superstition ;and it is not surprising that thesefigures should contain no traces ofthe admirable mechanism and ac-tion of the human frame, but theydo not even resemble its contour.The colours,…
Fashion · Art, Decorative
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