Royal collections : Windsor Castle and Buckingham Palace (1900)
[England? : s.n.] · leaf 172
formerquestionable surroundings. Does it not makeus less anxious to twaddle about the debasedart of a licentious court, than to recognisewhat a fine art it was at its best, and to feelsorrow for the poor artists whose life-work speltfor most of them starvation and ruin ? And what of Buckingham… … MANTELPIECE IN THE SITTING-ROOM,CLOSET. KNOWN AS THE ROYAL 246 18 THE MAGAZINE OP ART. A Keeper of the Mulberries was an officialof the Household as late as 1672, and equalledin dignity, perhaps, the holder of the Governor-ship of Duck Island in the lake of St. JamessPark, a salaried appointment…
