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Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDSThe painter lectures on Art to his JOHN JAMES AUDUBONThe naturalist discovers his box of drawings destroyed by rats. Prints such as here described are about the last survivalof old-fashioned Japanese color prints. They were made,presimiably, in Tokyo and sold as presents for boys inclosedin an envelope commonly in sets of five or ten. The tenprints exhibited, of which a list is appended, may haveconstituted such a set. Thomas Carlyle. His manuscript of the French revo-lution destroyed to kindle fires. The picture representsmanuscript bein
Brooklyn Museum Quarterly . SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDSThe painter lectures on Art to his JOHN JAMES AUDUBONThe naturalist discovers his box of drawings destroyed by rats. Prints such as here described are about the last survivalof old-fashioned Japanese color prints. They were made,presimiably, in Tokyo and sold as presents for boys inclosedin an envelope commonly in sets of five or ten. The tenprints exhibited, of which a list is appended, may haveconstituted such a set. Thomas Carlyle. His manuscript of the French revo-lution destroyed to kindle fires. The picture representsmanuscript being burned by a lighted candle that has fallenupon it. Bernard Palissy. The potter burns his furniture tofire his kiln. Sir Richard Arkwright. The inventors wife destroyshis model. Sir Joshua Reynolds. The painter lectures on art totwo of his pupils. James Watt. The inventor observes the steam escap-ing from a tea kettle. Josiah Wedgewood. The potter, a cripple with one leg,examines the wares the laborers are placing upon shelves. John Heathcoat. The inventor shows his first pieceof bobi
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