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Title: The history of silhouettes

Author: Emily Jackson

Author of introduction, etc.: Lady Dorothy Nevill

Release date: October 30, 2022 [eBook #69273]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: The Connoisseur, 1911

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HISTORY OF SILHOUETTES ***

THE HISTORY OF SILHOUETTES

PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE IN AN ENGLISH REGIMENT

About the end of the 18th century

In the possession of the Author

The History
of Silhouettes

BY
E. NEVILL JACKSON

THE CONNOISSEUR A MAGAZINE FOR COLLECTORS ILLUSTRATED

London:
THE CONNOISSEUR
1911

All rights reserved
Copyright by E. Nevill Jackson in the United States of America, 1911.

Far in and out, above, about, below,
’Tis nothing but a magic shadow show,
Play’d in a box whose candle is the sun
Round which we phantom figures come and go.
Stanza XLVI.
Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubyat of Omar Kayyam.