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Title: Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, K.G. To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana
Year: 1822 (1820s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Rare books Incunabula
Publisher: London : Printed by W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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as well as for the religious virtues, and other fine parts of hermind; and also from its having been so diligently and beautifully executed byyour hands, ^^e thank you for it, and assure you that we shall keep it amongour most precious things : commending this your great talent, wliich, howeverwonderful, we understand is among the least that you possess. And with thisend, we again repeat our blessing: that our Lord God may preserve you. Rome, October 15, 1561. Tills testimony is sufficient to demonstrate the talents of Sophonisba. Fasari, Pt. iii. p. 561-3. Edit. 1568. * Pilkington, after Baldinucci, says that by continual application to herprofession, she lost her sight; and it is recorded that Vandyke, having had anopportunity of conversing «ilh Sophonisba, used to say, that he received morebeneficial knowledge of the true principles of his art from one blind woman,than by studying all the works of the greatest masters in Italy. She died inthe year 1626, and in the 93rd of her age.
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THE DINING ROOM. 9 pieces—it is difficult to conceive. The only other acknowledgedspecimens of her talents, in England, is the Marriage of St. Ca-therine, in the collection of the Earl of Pembroke, at Wilton; and a small head of Sophonisba, in a round, in Lord Ashbum-hams collection. The present picture was purchased by Sarah,Duchess of Marlborough, for seven hundred guineas; a price,of very uncommon occurrence a century ago. This interestingpicture is here engraved for the first time.* A Calm, by Albert Clyp.—The opposite engraving willafford the best notion of the tranquillity which reigns throughoutthis enchanting picture. The predominant colour is a deep orsombre gray, reUeved nevertheless with frequent little flashes oflight, which are always to be found upon the surface of the sea.The gleam of sun-setting, to the left, affords a fine contrast tothe mass of dark clouds which is rolling away. The water is ofthe most delicious transparency. Altogether, this picture is de-servin

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