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The Isle of Wight (1895)

Cornish, C. J. (Charles John), 1858-1906, Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943. Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century, Cartwright, Julia. Raphael in Rome · London : Seeley ; New York : Macmillan · leaf 35

An illustration from The Isle of Wight, 1895, leaf 35
EHE ISLE OF WIG HE l9 out at the widest possible angle from the line of their bodies as soon as they leave the water. We had scarcely finished our interview with these interesting members of Neptune’s poultry yard when a cloud of gulls flew out of the cliff, puffins and guillemots rushed past in… … obvious. Descending from the brow of the cliff, on a rope hardly visible in the mist which wrapped the summit, was the figure of a man, while two others were indistinctly seen easing the rope downward through what appeared to be a block fastened to a post. The climber descended some 250 feet till…

Raphael, 1483-1520 · Etchers · Etching, Dutch

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