Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" there cannot, I feel convinced, be a greater incentive to mental exertion, to noble actions, to good conduct on the part of the living, than for them to see before them the features of those who have done things which are worthy of our admiration and... "
Facing the Late Victorians: Portraits of Writers and Artists from the Mark ... - Page 10
by Margaret Diane Stetz - 2007 - 158 pages
Limited preview - About this book

Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs

Christopher Pinney - Photography - 1997 - 250 pages
...National Portrait Gallery, where these words by Lord Palmerston are to be found inscribed at the entrance: There cannot, I feel convinced, be a greater incentive...brought before us in the visible and tangible shape of portraits. Arundale's theosophical engagements may well have made him more susceptible to the powers...
Limited preview - About this book

Art for the Nation: Exhibitions and the London Public, 1747-2001

Brandon Taylor - Art - 1999 - 346 pages
...times ... There cannot, I feel convinced, be a greater incentive to mental exertion, to noble action, to good conduct on the part of the living, than for...brought before us in the visible and tangible shape of portraits'.82 The Gallery's first Secretary and Keeper, George Scharf, a self-educated immigrant who...
Limited preview - About this book

Modernism and the Culture of Celebrity, Volume 13

Aaron Jaffe - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 272 pages
...the part of the living than for them to see before them the features of those who have done things worthy of our admiration, and whose example we are...brought before us in the visible and tangible shape of portraits." Of course, this means more than indiscriminate techniques for collective national edification;...
Limited preview - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search