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... published by Pieter Van der Aa are separate branch ( Oeconomischen tak ) for the furtherance of the great collection of Gronovius on Greek Antiquities , The- Economical Science . saurus Antiquitatum Græcarum , ' ( Lugd . Bat . 1697 ...
... published by Pieter Van der Aa are separate branch ( Oeconomischen tak ) for the furtherance of the great collection of Gronovius on Greek Antiquities , The- Economical Science . saurus Antiquitatum Græcarum , ' ( Lugd . Bat . 1697 ...
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... published a small volume of art - criticism , Voyage à travers l'Exposition des Beaux - Arts , ' the first of several series of notices of contemporary art written with the easy assurance of a light - hearted man of the world who had ...
... published a small volume of art - criticism , Voyage à travers l'Exposition des Beaux - Arts , ' the first of several series of notices of contemporary art written with the easy assurance of a light - hearted man of the world who had ...
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... published a Recueil de Sculptures Antiques , Grecques et Romaines , ' folio , engraved after his own drawings . He died in 1759. Two of his brothers also excelled as sculptors . FRANÇOIS - GASPARD ADAM , born at Nancy , 1710 , worked ...
... published a Recueil de Sculptures Antiques , Grecques et Romaines , ' folio , engraved after his own drawings . He died in 1759. Two of his brothers also excelled as sculptors . FRANÇOIS - GASPARD ADAM , born at Nancy , 1710 , worked ...
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... published at Berlin in 1826. Two of his brothers distin- guished themselves - JOHAN , born 1753 , died May 20 , 1837 , as professor of chemistry in Upsal University ; and PEHR , born 1760 , died Dec. 2 , 1839 , professor of medicine at ...
... published at Berlin in 1826. Two of his brothers distin- guished themselves - JOHAN , born 1753 , died May 20 , 1837 , as professor of chemistry in Upsal University ; and PEHR , born 1760 , died Dec. 2 , 1839 , professor of medicine at ...
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... published map of London , flourished in the last half of the 16th century . Agas is included by Walpole in his Catalogue of Engravers , but there is no evidence that he practised engraving , and the probability is that he did not . The ...
... published map of London , flourished in the last half of the 16th century . Agas is included by Walpole in his Catalogue of Engravers , but there is no evidence that he practised engraving , and the probability is that he did not . The ...
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