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Markino's Rome
Although Markino's image of Rome is at least as romanticised as anything on display in the beginning of the exhibition, reader expectations have undoubtedly shifted, developing an interest in the 'personal & local', the individual experience that…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
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Ruth Dallas wrote: 'When Janet Paul was considering publishing 'Song for a Guitar' she suggested the book should contain drawings by her daughter Joanna Paul. We discussed the enclosed drawings by letter. She was unable to go on with the…
Le terme dei Romani
This drawing of Diocletian's Baths can be traced to Andrea Palladio. The Bertotti-Scamozzi illustrations in this volume follow those included by the English architect, Lord Burlington, in his study of the Baths of the Romans, Fabbriche Antiche…
The city of Yedo or Edo (now Tokyo) [detail].
Between 1630 and 1830 Japan's borders were virtually closed to western visitors. The only Europeans allowed into Japan were the Dutch. Atlas Japannensis: being remarkable addresses by way of embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces…
Caricature of medical school professors.
A colour caricature by P. W. Eisdell Moore, depicting Professors from the School of Medicine. Left to right: Joseph Bernard Dawson, Eric F. D’Ath, Francis Gordon Bell, Charles Ernest Hercus, John Malcolm, William Percy Gowland, and Frederick Horace…
The gardeners dictionary
As also, the physick garden, wilderness, conservatory, and vineyard, according to the practice of the most experienc'd gardeners of the present age. Interspers'd with the history of the plants, the characters of each genus, and the names of all the…
Michelin man
The Michelin man seems slightly thin by comparison with his modern counterpart, but the insistent endorsement of Michelin products is as modern as any web-page advertising. At this date, the guides had not yet adopted the star rating system and did…
Wild the hedgerows, wild the spring, wild the yellowhammers sing. Wild the roaring of the sea, wilder still the blood in me.
Lower left (l.l.) in pencil: Colin McCahon For my friend Pat France, Feb 1970. Poem by John Caselberg No 1 of six on van Gogh, the other five of which I hope you will love as much. Colin; through image in chalk: Wild the hedgerows, wild the spring,…
The ruins of Pæstum
The Greek temples at Paestum in southern Italy were almost unknown until the 1750s. They became better known through publication. This book by Thomas Major was one of the first that enabled architects of Northern and Western Europe to study the three…
Aedificiorvm et rvinarvm Romae ex antiqvis atqve hodiernis monimentis liber primus
This book on the buildings and ruins of Rome by the 17th century artist and engraver, Giovanni Maggi, is typical of the works by which the ruins of antiquity became known outside Italy through that century. The remnant of the Temple of Jupiter Stator…
A treatise on forming, improving, and managing country residences
In 2 vols.
Rural scenery is so congenial to the human mind, that there are few persons who do not indulge the hope of retiring at some period into the country.' So begins John Claudius Loudon's A Treatise on Forming, Improving and Managing Country…
Rural scenery is so congenial to the human mind, that there are few persons who do not indulge the hope of retiring at some period into the country.' So begins John Claudius Loudon's A Treatise on Forming, Improving and Managing Country…
