Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870, 2. kötetTrübner, 1870 - 780 oldal |
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... Vase , ' but now more commonly as the ' Portland Vase , ' from the name of its last individual possessor . This vase is one of the innumerable acquisitions which the country owes to the intelligent research and cultivated taste of Sir ...
... Vase , ' but now more commonly as the ' Portland Vase , ' from the name of its last individual possessor . This vase is one of the innumerable acquisitions which the country owes to the intelligent research and cultivated taste of Sir ...
462. oldal
... Vase ' was bought by HAMILTON . When , in December , 1784 , he paid one of his visits to England , the vase came with him . Its fame had previously excited the desires of many virtuosi . By the Duchess of PORTLAND it was so strongly ...
... Vase ' was bought by HAMILTON . When , in December , 1784 , he paid one of his visits to England , the vase came with him . Its fame had previously excited the desires of many virtuosi . By the Duchess of PORTLAND it was so strongly ...
463. oldal
... Vase in his manufactory at Etruria - for which purpose the then Duke liberally lent it to him - he discovered that the vase had been broken and skilfully put together again . After it had been publicly exhibited during almost thirty ...
... Vase in his manufactory at Etruria - for which purpose the then Duke liberally lent it to him - he discovered that the vase had been broken and skilfully put together again . After it had been publicly exhibited during almost thirty ...
469. oldal
... vases . And he had been not less suc- cessful in his quest . In amassing early and choice editions of the classics , and also the curiosities and rarities of fifteenth - century printing , he had been especially lucky . From the same ...
... vases . And he had been not less suc- cessful in his quest . In amassing early and choice editions of the classics , and also the curiosities and rarities of fifteenth - century printing , he had been especially lucky . From the same ...
582. oldal
... vase - collections of Europe . London , in that point of view , was below both Naples and Paris , if not also below Munich . It now ranks above them all ; pos- sessing two thousand six hundred vases , as against two thousand at Paris ...
... vase - collections of Europe . London , in that point of view , was below both Naples and Paris , if not also below Munich . It now ranks above them all ; pos- sessing two thousand six hundred vases , as against two thousand at Paris ...
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addition ancient Antonio PANIZZI appointed archæological arrangement Assyrian BANKSIAN basement bequest BOOK III British Museum building Catalogue century Chap Coins and Medals Committee early edition Egyptian ELLIS eminent England exhibition feet Felix SLADE Gallery GEORGE THE THIRD GEORGIAN GISTS AND EXPLORERS glass Greek GRENVILLE ground GROUP OF ARCHEOLO Henry honour House increase inscription JECTORS Joseph PLANTA King KING'S OR GEORGIAN labours LAYARD less Librarian literary literature London Lord SHELBURNE LOVERS AND PUBLIC Lycian manuscripts Marbles ment monuments MUSEUM UNDER SIR National Natural History Nineveh Nitrian Desert objects PANIZZI Parliament persons PLANTA portion present Printed Books PUBLIC BENEFAC purchase reader Reading-Room RECON removed Roman Room Royal sculptures side Sir Charles FELLOWS SIR H Sir Joseph BANKS space species specimens staircase STRUCTORS Syriac TATTAM Thomas GRENVILLE thousand five hundred thousand pounds tion tomb TORS OF RECENT Trustees upper floor vases volumes walls WATTS Zoology