 | Daniel Clarke Eddy - 1885 - 326 páginas
...was destitute of beauty, and often distorted with passion. " A pale Roman nose," says Horace Walpole, "a head of hair loaded with crowns, and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff", a vaster fardingalc, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which everybody knows at once the pictures... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1886 - 300 páginas
...herself, concerning which Walpole says : " There is not a single one to be called beautiful. They are totally composed of hands and necklaces. A pale Roman...and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which everyone knows them at once." Nicholas was the son of Richard Milliard, of Exeter, high sheriff of... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1886 - 360 páginas
...they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than...idol totally composed of hands and necklaces. A pale Koman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardingale,... | |
 | William Jones - 1902 - 712 páginas
...of ornaments in Queen Elizabeth's dresses, thus describes her Majesty : " A pale Boman nose, a bead of hair loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster f ardingale, and a bushel of pearls are the features by which everybody knows at once the pictures... | |
 | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - 1916 - 600 páginas
...they are loaded, are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than...with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardingale and a bushell of pearls are the features by which everybody knows at once the pictures of queen Elizabeth.... | |
 | Harold Clifford Smith - 1908 - 702 páginas
...they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than...powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardingale, a bushel of pearls, are features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth."... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1909 - 432 páginas
...for the most part, they are the work of second-rate Dutchmen or Italians. " A pale Roman nose, a head loaded with crowns and powdered with diamonds, a vast...pearls, are the features by which everybody knows the pictures of the Queen of England." Walpole's sarcastic description is certainly graphic enough.... | |
 | James Edward Gillespie - 1920 - 396 páginas
...they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius than...and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster farthingale, a bushel of pearls, are features by which every body knows at once the pictures of Queen... | |
 | George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson - 2001 - 678 páginas
...entertained an extravagant fondness for pearls. In speaking of her portraits, Horace Walpole says: "A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns...ruff, a vaster fardingale, and a bushel of pearls, are features by which everybody knows at once the pictures of Queen Elizabeth."* And to the end, her love... | |
 | Rebecca Stott - 2004 - 244 páginas
...eighteenth-century art collector Horace Walpole described Elizabeth's astutely iconographic self-representation: 'A pale Roman nose, a head of hair loaded with crowns...and powdered with diamonds, a vast ruff, a vaster fardingdale, and a bushel of pearls, are the features by which everybody knows at once the pictures... | |
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... there is not a single portrait of her that one can call beautiful. The profusion of ornaments with which they are loaded are marks of her continual fondness for dress, while they entirely exclude all grace, and leave no more room for a painter's genius... 
