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Title: The graphic and historical illustrator; an original miscellany of literary, antiquarian, and topographical information, embellished with one hundred and fifty woodcuts
Year: 1834 (1830s)
Authors: Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773-1854
Subjects: England -- Antiquities England -- Architecture England -- Description and travel
Publisher: London, Chidley
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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stage, and De Loutherbourg lost hisappointment; and what they had jointly done inthis work of reformation, vas left for John Kembleto improve, which, by successive years devoted tothat important desideratum, he achieved almost tocompletion. Many other artists, of various grades of merit,have practised in this department of painting at theseveral minor theatres in the metropolis and environs,as well as in the provincial theatres ; amongst others,Charles Dibdin, the celebrated lyric composer;his son, the distinguished dramatist; Robert Digh-ton; Lampe, the dramatist and musician; and lastof all the departed worthies, our ingenious andesteemed old friend, William Capon, who hadstudied under Novosielski; he of all the fraternitywas the most deeply skilled in the topography ofthe ancient metropolis. His architectural scenes,painted for Covent Garden Theatre, when underKembles management, were strikingly characteristic, 384 THE GRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATOR. GROUP OF HEATHEN DIVINITIES
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From the Museum The worship of Graven linages, had its origin inthe East,—which was alike the cradle of religion,the nurse of superstition, and the inventor of alle-gory and fable. The eastern nations were so stronglyaddicted to the personification of abstract ideas, thatnot a quality of creation, nor an attribute of themind, was suffered to remain unrepresented by somearbitrary form, or combination. The vast mass ofmythological tradition thus engendered, at lengthoverflowed the continent of India, and thence per-vaded almost every part of the ancient world.Hindostan and China, Egypt and Phoenicia, and, inlater ages, Greece and Rome, were most prolific oftheir deities ; but happily for mankind, Judaism andChristianity arose with healing on their wings, of Sir John Soane. and intervening to arrest the progress of idolatdirected the erring sense to the contemplation athe worship of the only one and true God.—In the collection of antiquities made by Mr. Soa;the time-honoured and vene

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