The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages: Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries |
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Page 149
... French over each battle , to the no small admiration of the beholder , and the increase of royal magnifi- cence . " Round the walls of St. Stephen's chapel effigies of the Apostles were painted in oil ; ( which was thus used with ...
... French over each battle , to the no small admiration of the beholder , and the increase of royal magnifi- cence . " Round the walls of St. Stephen's chapel effigies of the Apostles were painted in oil ; ( which was thus used with ...
Page 151
... French . It could only be from its superior comfort that an article so tedious in manufacture as needlework tapestry could be preferred to the more quickly - pro- duced decorations of the pencil ; it was also rude in design ; and the ...
... French . It could only be from its superior comfort that an article so tedious in manufacture as needlework tapestry could be preferred to the more quickly - pro- duced decorations of the pencil ; it was also rude in design ; and the ...
Page 160
... French have had other considerable manufactories at Auvergne , Felletin and Beauvais , but all sank beneath the superiority of the Gobelins , which indeed at one time outvied the renown of that far - famed town , whose productions gave ...
... French have had other considerable manufactories at Auvergne , Felletin and Beauvais , but all sank beneath the superiority of the Gobelins , which indeed at one time outvied the renown of that far - famed town , whose productions gave ...
Page 180
... French , still there are many concurring circumstances to prove that the original , often quoted by Chaucer , was an ancient metrical English one . That it is difficult to find who Sir Guy was , or in fact , to prove that there ever was ...
... French , still there are many concurring circumstances to prove that the original , often quoted by Chaucer , was an ancient metrical English one . That it is difficult to find who Sir Guy was , or in fact , to prove that there ever was ...
Page 194
... French modistes of that day called this formidable head - gear bonnet à la Syrienne . But our author says , if female vanity be violently restrained in one point , it is sure to break out in another ; and Romish anathemas having ...
... French modistes of that day called this formidable head - gear bonnet à la Syrienne . But our author says , if female vanity be violently restrained in one point , it is sure to break out in another ; and Romish anathemas having ...
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