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A rough sketch of modern Paris : $b or, Letters on society, manners, public curiosities, and amusements, in that capitalLemaistre, J. G. (John Gustavus)

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A rough sketch of modern Paris : $b or, Letters on society, manners, public curiosities, and amusements, in that capital

Name: A rough sketch of modern Paris : $b or, Letters on society, manners, public curiosities, and amusements, in that capital
Author: Lemaistre, J. G. (John Gustavus)

Lemaistre, J. G. (John Gustavus)

Paris (France) -- Description and travel

No. 575. The Smoker.
        576. The Grinder.
        577. Country people dancing to the sound of the Bagpipe.
        578. The Works of Charity.
        579. The Village Wedding.
        580. The Preparations for a Repast.
        581. Peter’s Denial of our Saviour.
        582. A Landscape.
        583. The inside of an Ale-house, with Persons playing at Cards.
        584. The Prodigal Son at Table, with his Mistresses.—(In this
               picture Teniers is supposed to have drawn himself and
               his Family.)
        585. Hern shooting.
        586. The Alchymist in his Laboratory.
        587. An old Man’s Head in a Fur Dress and Bonnet.
        588. The inside of an Ale-house.

    TENIERS (THE ELDER DAVID.)

    No. 589. A Man playing on a Bagpipe.

    ITALIAN SCHOOL.

    GIO BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE (CALLED AT GENOA, IL GRECHETTO, AND IN
    FRANCE, THE BENDETTE.)

    No. 689. The Nativity.
        690. The Money-sellers driven from the Temple.
        691. Melchisedec, King of Salem, offering Bread and Wine to
               Abraham.
        692. A Woman carrying a Vase on her head, an old Man, and an
               African with a Turban on his head holding a copper plate.
        693. In the middle of a Court a Woman carrying a Copper Vessel,
               and an Ass loaded with Kitchen Furniture.
        694. Jacob leaves Mesopotamia, in order to see his Father in
               Canaan.
        695. Bacchanalians and Satyrs resting, and playing on different
               Instruments.

    ALBANI (FRANCESCO.)

    No. 660. The Birth of the Virgin.
        661. Mystic Vision of the Cross.
        662. Diana and Acteon.
        663. The Holy Family.
        664. The Rest in Egypt.
        665. The Rest in Egypt.
        666. St. Francis praying before a Crucifix.
        667. God the Father in his Glory.
        668. Adam and Eve.
        669. The Annunciation of the Virgin.
        670. The Annunciation of the Virgin.
        671. Our Saviour appearing to Mary Magdalen.
        672. The Baptism of Jesus in the Waters of Jordan.
        673. The preaching of St. John in the Desert.
        674. Apollo at the House of Admetus, King of Thessaly.
        675. The Triumph of Cybele.
        676. Fire.
        677. Air.
        678. Water.
        679. Earth.
        680. } The Loves and Graces at the Toilet of Venus.
        681. }
        682. }
        683. }
        684. Apollo and Daphne.
        685. Salmacis and Hermaphroditus.

    THE CARRACCI.

    The four Elements by the three Carracci, that is to say,

    No. 703. Earth, by Lodovico Carracci.
        704. Water, by Lodovico Carracci.
        705. Fire, by Agostino Carracci,
        706. Air, by Annibale Carracci.

    CARRACCI (AGOSTINO.)

    No. 707. The Assumption of the Virgin.
        708. St. Cæcilia and St. Marguerite.
        709. The Communion of St. Jerom.
        710. Hercules in his Cradle, strangling the Serpents.

    CARRACCI (LODOVICO.)

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