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Moses Views the Promised Land

“By Lord Leighton, P.R.A., from “Dalziel’s Bible Gallery.” By permission of Messrs. Herbert Virtue & Co. Ltd.” (p. 243) The Biblical text illustrated is: “48 And the LORD spoke unto Moses that same da [...]

Keywords: people, scholars, bare feet, beards, mountains, religion

Places shown: Abarim; Moab; Israel

Added: 2006-10-02

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Holyrood Palace From the Public Gardens Under Calton Hill

“Holyrood Palace stretches across the picture east and west, and is dominated by Arthur’s Seat and Salisbury Crags. The dark turret at the west end of the nearest and north wing contains the private s [...]

Keywords: abbeys, manors, cities, houses, trees, mountains, birds, palaces, views, cityscapes, colour, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Edinburgh; Lothian; Scotland

Added: 2006-01-03

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III. The Temple Over the Canyon, Segesta

“Everyone advised me to go to Segesta, and I am glad I wemt, but I should never have known how wonderfully the Greeks made architectural compositions if I had not seen the Grand Canyon. There I saw N [...]

Keywords: temples, ruins, hills, mountains, sketches, ancient greek remains

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2004-01-05

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II. The Theatre, Segesta

“Nothing, not even Taormina, is more magnificent than the set scene of the Theatre; how poor and mean must have been the forgotten mummers! The scene will exist till the end of time—even though scarc [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, amphitheatres, sketches, ruins, ancient greek remains, wallpaper, backgrounds

Places shown: Segesta; Trapani; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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I. Aetna over Taormina

“For years I wanted to make this drawing—and for days after I reached Taormina I had to wait before I could make it: for a curtain of mist hung over the sea and land. Then suddenly in all its glory t [...]

Keywords: temples, mountains, sketches, ruins

Places shown: Taormina; Messina; Sicily; Italy

Added: 2003-12-14

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The Mummelsee.

A group of water-nymphs bathe in the lake, with the stern figure of the ruler of the lake in the background. At the southern end of the mountain-range which ascends from the Kniebis to the Hornisgründ [...]

Keywords: people, nudity, bare feet, mountains, water, beards, colour

Places shown: Baden; Germany

Added: 2009-03-24

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