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Title: A wanderer in London
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall), 1868-1938
Subjects: Art -- England London London (England) -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : The Macmillan company London, Methuen & co.

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iry architecture: Venice, in fact, floating on her Adriaticlike a swan. The best Guardis ever brought together arehere, hung side by side with the more severe and archi-tectural Canaletto, to show how much more human andsouthern and romantic Venice may be made by pupil thanby master. For the water colours you seek Rooms XXIand XXII, notable above all for their examples of RichardParkes Bonington, that great and sensitive colourist, who,like Keats, had done his work and was dead before ordinarymen have made up their minds as to what they will attempt.In two or three of these tiny drawings Bonington is at hisbest — particularly in No. 700, Fishing Boats ; No. 714,The Church of Sant Ambrogio, Milan, and, above all,No. 708, Sunset in the Pays de Caux, which might beplaced beside Turners greatest effects of light and losenothing, although it is only seven and a half inches by ten. On the ground floor arc a few more pictures, amongthem two or three which one would like to see in the great
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SI /.ANNK \.\.N ( (H.I.KN AM) IIKU DAI <.liri;U AKTKK IIIK I-n TLKE IIY UKMBKANDT IN THE WALLACE COLLECTION MINUTURES 33 gallery, properly lighted, such as Bramantinos charmingfresco of The Youthful Gian Galeazzo Sforza readingCicero, which should be reproduced for all boys schools;Pieter Pourbus very interesting Allegorical Love Feast— this painters work being rare in England; and Bron-zinos portrait of Eleanora de Toledo. In the room wherethese pictures hang are the cases devoted to coloured waxreliefs, a very amusing collection. In the great hall atthe back is the armour, and elsewhere are statuary, furni-ture and a priceless company of miniatures, many of themvery naked, but all dainty and smiling. I am no judgeof such confectionery, but I recall one or two that seem tostand out as peculiarly dexterous or charming: I rememberin particular a portrait wrongfully described as The TwoMiss Gunnings, by Adolphe-Hall, and Samuel Coopers Charles II. I have said nothing of the Sevres

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