Galleries and cabinets of art in Great Britain : being an account of more than forty collections of paintings, drawings, sculptures, mss., &c. &c. visited in 1854 and 1856, and now for the first time described (1857)
Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794-1868, Waagen, Gustav Friedrich, 1794-1868. Treasures of art in Great Britain · London : J. Murray · leaf 29
he figure of Christ, who is in the act of benediction, and projecting from the architectural indication of the city, with the inscription CItON, is a female head, with an expression of grief, and with a flat purple crown — obviously the personification of Jerusalem. Her future destruction is… … oupayos^ with the sun of a red, and the moon of a blue colour. In the centre of the circle is the earth. The two heads which are connected with the earth are, we are informed by the inscription, avriTro^sr, the antipodes. L. 137a, a Dying Man ; a naked child coming from his mouth, with the…
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