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Title: Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
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e leads, by completely painting her little bed-room in the light of dawn, so that you can see everythingin it. It is lighted by two doubly-arched windows, thearches being painted crimson round their edges, and thecapitals of the shafts that bear them, gilded. They arefilled at the top with small round panes of glass; but be-neath, are open to the blue morning sky, with a low latticeacross them ; and in the one at the back of the room areset two beautiful white Greek vases with a plant in each ;one having rich dark and pointed green leaves, the othercrimson flowers, but not of any species known to me, eachat the end of a branch like a spray of heath. These flower-pots stand on a shelf which runs all roundthe room, and beneath the window, at about the height ofthe elbow, and serves to put things on anywhere : beneathit, down to the floor, the walls are covered with greencloth ; but above are bare and white. The second windowis nearly opposite the bed, and.in front of it is the princesss
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The Dream of St. Ursula. Carpaccio. THE DREAM OF ST. URSULA 59 reading-table, some two feet and a half square, covered bya red cloth with a white border and dainty fringe; and be-side it her seat, not at all like a reading chair in Oxford,but a very small three-legged stool like a music stool,covered with crimson cloth. On the table are a book, setup at a slope fittest for reading, and an hour-glass. Underthe shelf near the table so as to be easily reached by theoutstretched arm, is a press full of books. The door ofthis has been left open, and the books, I am grieved to say,are rather in disorder, having been pulled about before theprincess went to bed, and one left standing on its side. Opposite this window, on the white wall, is a smallshrine or picture (I cant see which, for it is in sharp re-tiring perspective), with a lamp before it, and a silvervessel hung from the lamp, looking like one for holdingincense. The bed is a broad four-poster, the posts being beauti-fully wrought go

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