Memoirs of a Picture: Containing the Adventures of Many Conspicuous Characters and Interspersed with a Variety of Amusing Anecdotes of Several Very Extraordinary Personages Connected with the Arts : Including a Genuine Biographical Sketch of that Celebrated Original and Eccentric Genius, the Late Mr. George Morland ... : to which is Added a Copious Appendix, Embracing Every Interesting Subject Relative to Our Justly Admired English Painter and His Most Valuable Works, Том 2C. Stower, 1805 |
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... GEORGE MORLAND . Drawn from the tolerably authentic source of more than twenty years ' intimate acquaintance with him , his family , and connections . TO WHICH IS ADDED , A COPIOUS APPENDIX , Embracing every interesting subject relative ...
... GEORGE MORLAND . Drawn from the tolerably authentic source of more than twenty years ' intimate acquaintance with him , his family , and connections . TO WHICH IS ADDED , A COPIOUS APPENDIX , Embracing every interesting subject relative ...
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... Chapter - Short account of the final exit of poor George • Page 147 APPENDIX · Page 161 A Brief description of several of Morland's best works not generally known . Page 226 Memoirs of a picture . CHAP . I. A GENUINE VOL II . b ix.
... Chapter - Short account of the final exit of poor George • Page 147 APPENDIX · Page 161 A Brief description of several of Morland's best works not generally known . Page 226 Memoirs of a picture . CHAP . I. A GENUINE VOL II . b ix.
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... George for the use of some of his lame cheveaux . What even such a subject as the portraits . of that family would produce now , is . best known to those who are fortunate TM enough to be in possession of some of our artist's ordinary ...
... George for the use of some of his lame cheveaux . What even such a subject as the portraits . of that family would produce now , is . best known to those who are fortunate TM enough to be in possession of some of our artist's ordinary ...
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... George could never digest . And notwithstanding his immediate displeasure was the consequence , there were not want- ing two or three out of the great num- ber of acquaintances that now blasphemed the sacred name of friend , without hav ...
... George could never digest . And notwithstanding his immediate displeasure was the consequence , there were not want- ing two or three out of the great num- ber of acquaintances that now blasphemed the sacred name of friend , without hav ...
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... George unfortunately made upon the road to ruin . A single sentence will con- vince the reader of this fact , and answer the general enquiry respecting the means he resorted to , and what seeming pains he took to squander away the sums ...
... George unfortunately made upon the road to ruin . A single sentence will con- vince the reader of this fact , and answer the general enquiry respecting the means he resorted to , and what seeming pains he took to squander away the sums ...
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