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Ancient and modern gold and silver smiths' work in the South Kensington museum (1878)

South Kensington Museum, Pollen, John Hungerford, 1820-1902 · London, Printed by G.E. Eyre and W. Spottiswoode and sold by Chapman & Hall · leaf 185

An illustration from Ancient and modern gold and silver smiths' work in the South Kensington museum, 1878, leaf 185
clxxix IntroduSiion . garding the elixir of youth, magic mirrors, and other wonders then popularly believed. On the other hand Dr. Dee, a divine of the church of England and a profeffor of thefe arts, enjoyed and retained the queen’s confidence,60 XV, — The Seventeenth Century. … 42. Flemish Salver. 17TH Century, No. 1153, p. 216. The goldfmiths’ art underwent but few changes of fafhion for the firft part of the feventeenth century. Much of the fplendour with which the art of the revival had filled the caflles and palaces of Italy had become by that time familiar to all the…

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