The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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Page 47
... hangings and furniture of his dining chamber , being Babylonian work or cloth of Arras , were sold for 800,000 sesterces ; and such like of late days stood Prince Nero in 400,000 sesterces , i . e . forty millions . ' The embrodered ...
... hangings and furniture of his dining chamber , being Babylonian work or cloth of Arras , were sold for 800,000 sesterces ; and such like of late days stood Prince Nero in 400,000 sesterces , i . e . forty millions . ' The embrodered ...
Page 51
... hangings and carpets but on wearing apparel . Ciampini gives various instances . * What changes , says he , do not a long course of years produce ! Who now , except in the theatre , or at a carnival or masquerade ( spectaculis ac rebus ...
... hangings and carpets but on wearing apparel . Ciampini gives various instances . * What changes , says he , do not a long course of years produce ! Who now , except in the theatre , or at a carnival or masquerade ( spectaculis ac rebus ...
Page 62
... hangings for the altars , shrines , & c . , besides these being pe- culiarly the occupation of the professed sisters of religious houses , it was likewise the pride and the delight of ladies of rank to devote both their money to the ...
... hangings for the altars , shrines , & c . , besides these being pe- culiarly the occupation of the professed sisters of religious houses , it was likewise the pride and the delight of ladies of rank to devote both their money to the ...
Page 68
... hangings of various descriptions , common in churches in the dark ages - would almost surpass belief , if the minuteness with which they are enumerated in some few ancient authors did not attest the fact . Still these in the most ...
... hangings of various descriptions , common in churches in the dark ages - would almost surpass belief , if the minuteness with which they are enumerated in some few ancient authors did not attest the fact . Still these in the most ...
Page 70
... hangings which had become injured by old age being carefully repaired at con- siderable expense ; which expense and trouble would not , we may fairly infer , have been incurred if the articles in question , even at this more advanced ...
... hangings which had become injured by old age being carefully repaired at con- siderable expense ; which expense and trouble would not , we may fairly infer , have been incurred if the articles in question , even at this more advanced ...
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