Identifier: streetrailwayrev09amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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s, such as Meissonier, Bouguereau, Gerome, Munkacsy, Michetti and Troyon, it has but one specimen of each, and repre-sents not only the French and German schools, but also the Belgian, Italian, Austrian, English and Swedish. Thirteen of the most important art paintings by old and moder nmasters, which were purchased in June. 1890, by the Institute from the famous Demidoff collection in Florence, are now on exhibition. They include several by Van Ostade, Rembrandt, Hals, Rubens, Van Dyck, Murillo (The Immaculate Conception), Titian, Goyen. Von der Neer, Hobbema, de Keyser and others. In the collection lent by Mr. Cyrus H. McCormick are landscapes by Daubigny, Corot, Troyon and the late George Innes. Charles Sprague Pearces magnificent The Beheading of John the Baptist, which was painted in Paris in 1881, attracts the attention of all visitors. Among the modern oil paintings, perhaps none are more interesting than those lent by Mrs. P. C. Hanford. This Oct. 15, 1890.1 STREET RAILWAY REVIEW. 641
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