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Title: Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or, A descriptive catalogue of the ... library of George John, earl Spencer
Year: 1814 (1810s)
Authors: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834 Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847 John Rylands Library
Subjects: Althorp (Northampton, Northamptonshire) Incunabula Rare books Printing
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ketch ; and I make no apology to the reader forpresenting him with a very literal version of the whole of whathe has said concerning Sophonisba and her family .^f Walpole, * ITie name is variously spelt in Vasari. The artist lierself writes it as above. t But Sophonisba, of Cremona, daughter of M. Amilcaro Angusciuola, haswith more care, and with a better grace, than any other lady of her time, prac-tised the art of painting: for she not only knew how to draw, colour, paintfrom nature, and copy excellently from the works of others, but has also com-posed some most rare and beautiful things herself. From which circumstancePhilip, King of Spain, having heard from the Duke of Alva of her tHlents,sent for her, and had her honourably conducted into Spain, where he placedher about the Queen, with a large pension, and with the admiration of all thatcourt. And therefore it is not to be wondered at that M. Tommuso, a Ro-man gentleman, sent to the Duke Cosimo, besides a picture by tlie divine I
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