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habit doubtless survived under the Hel- lenic domination of the country, but, as these discoveries show, in a. modified form. The portraits were painted on separate panels of sycamore wood, which were placed upon the body and kept in position by the bands of linen employed as a shroud. The panels were about a foot or a foot and a half long, and six or eight inches broad. Inasmuch as almost all of the por- traits represent men or women between fifteen and forty, it is not easy to sup- pose that they were painted after the death of the person represented, for otherwise we should find pictures of infants and of a greater number of old persons, and, moreover, nearly every one represents the sitter in a condition of health and unimpaired strength. It seems more reasonable to suppose that the habit of portrait-painting was coin- mon, and that some one picture was chosen to be laid with the body in thQ tomb, although the fact that many wear the funeral dress makes a decision of this question more difficult. That these were evidently close portraits can be stoutly maintained by those who have Number 2. and accuracy of his views, makes us feel sure that the German in the familiar story who evolved the camel out of his inner consciousness, came nearer the truth than the Englishman who sailed to Africa to study the animal, or than the Frenchman who recorded the observa- tions he made at the Jardin des Plantes. Yet, without these odious international comparisons, it may be said that the portraits which have recently been dis- covered do most wonderfully bear out the accuracy of Helbigs statements. The~e portraits, about seventy in number, are some which were found near Fayoum, at a place called Rubaiyat, in July and August, 1887. There are about seventy in all, and they were taken from the graves at what appears to have been a favorite place of burial. It was an old Egyptian custom to represent upon the mummy case a likeness of the person contained within. On those of stone this was done by carving, and the art of painting was employed when the ma- terial was of wood or papier-mdch~. The Number 23.
seen them, and the accompanying illus- trations will doubtless corroborate this view. The pictures are, to be sure, of varying merit, but the first impression which the spectator receives is one of closeacciiracy. The various hues are well giv~n, from fairness through and be- y6nd~the different shades of the brunette to a very full admixture of African blood. The different degrees of skill seem ,at first to establish a wide differ- ence of date, for it is easy, too easy, to conjecture that the crude pictures were painted a century or so before the good ones, but, since similar inequalities may be found in every modern picture ex- hibition, it is fairer to conjecture that then, as in more recent days, some pre- ferred, from motives of economy or from lack of taste, incompetent artists, while others made a wiser choice. Even more weighty arguments leave the determination of the exact date of the portraits somewhat vague. They must have been painted before 395 A.D., when the edict of Theodosius forbade heathen funeral rites, and~ Professor Ebers is inclined to~ believe that some were painted possibly three or four centu~ ries before the Christian era, and others probably in the first two centuries after Number 43. Christ. This would bring them into the flowering time of Alexandrine art, when the Antinotts,f6r example, ~vas produced, in the reign of Hadrian, 117138 A.D. The best of the portraits certainly do not contradict the hypothesis that they belong to a period of brilliant art work. The quality that most distinguishes them is a directness, a simplicity, which is most attractive. There is, perhaps, a certain conventionality in the treatment of the eyes, which have a somewhat mo- notonous stare, but, with that exception the portraits are above all things nat- ural and evidently life-like. In all of them the person is painted quite, or very nearly in full face, and the shoul- ders form the lower limit of the picture. They are generally painted in encaustic, that is to say, in a mixture of pure wax and a liquid balsam, into which were Number 16.
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1889 President George Washington Taking Oath NY in 1789 1889 Original Magazine Print. Removed from an Antique Magazine.
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1892 Christopher Columbus 1892 Original Magazine Prints (2). Removed from an antique Magazine.(size 6"x9" each)
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1904 Swiss Alps Jungfrau Railroad Switzerland 1904 Original Magazine Article-removed from an Antique Magazine.
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8 pages with 8 illustrations.
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1907 William Taft Boyhood & Yale College Days 1907 Original Magazine Article. Removed from an Antique Magazine.
Quite old and scarce.
10 Pages with 9 Illustrations .
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1900 Oberlin College in Ohio 1900 Original Magazine Article-removed from an Antique Magazine.
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20 pages with 20 illustrations.
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1913 Life after Death Maurice Maeterlinck 1913 Original Magazine Article. Removed from an Antique Magazine.
13 Pages with no Illustrations.
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British Royal Marriage Duke and Duchess of York Royalty 1893 Original Magazine Article-removed from an Antique Magazine.
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1902 King's Highway 1902 Original Magazine Article-removed from an Antique Magazine.
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11 pages with 9 illustrations.
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1897 Undergraduate Life at Princeton College 1897 Original Magazine Article/Story.
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29 pages with 28 illustrations.
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1909 Divorce James Baltimore Cardinal Gibbons & E. Ross 1909 Original Magazine Article. Removed from an antique American Magazine.
8 Pages. Written by James Cardinal Gibbons and E. Ross.
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1872 Washington Treaty UK Covert Help 4 Confederate War 1872 Original Magazine Article. Removed from an Antique Magazine.
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Great Seal of the Province of New York 17th Century Original Bookplate Engraving Prints from 1850 book about New York.
2 Prints showing an Obverse and Reverse.
Lower corners had tears that were repaired with an acid free tape in a back.
Each Page size about 5 1/2" x 9".
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1905 Thomas A Edison Print 1905 Original Magazine Print-removed from an Antique Magazine.
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1899 Pacific Garden Mission Chicago Illinois Old Print
100+ years old original newspaper print (illustration).
Size of the print about: 5"x5" inches.(1 inch=2,5cm)
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1902 San Jose CA City Hall Park U.S. Post Office Print This is NOT a postcard .It's an old print.
1902 Original Magazine Print-removed from an Antique Magazine.
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Page size approx. 6" x9"
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1861 Cherbourg France View Original 1861 Print.
15 inch x 11 inch (38cm x 28cm)
Some light browning at folds.
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1900 King's House Ebon Marshall Islands Old Print
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1899 Bayamón Puerto Rico Hurricane Relief Old Print
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1861 Sebastopol Ukraine Russia Crimea War Sevastopol 1861 Sebastopol Malakof Tower Ukraine Crimean War
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1778 George Washington Letter Revolutonary War News Up for sale is this original enemy magazine from the time of
American Revolution and George Washington himself.
It's a British 1778 The London Magazine for June.
It has been disbound from a larger volume.
It's 45 pages long (page 243 to 288)
Among many interesting news on page 286 you'll find a letter by George Washington.
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1900 US Consul To Hong Kong China Tiger Cub Pet Print
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1899 Garret Augustus Hobart US Vice President Old Print
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1890 's George Washington in Boston 1894 Original magazine article.Removed from an antique magazine. Quite Scarce.
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IT is one hundred and four years since President Washingtons visit to New England, and his famous reception by the authorities of Boston. This was not the first nor the second appearance of Washington in the Puritan capital. In the early winter of 1756, the future President, then a colonel of the forces stationed on the frontiers of Maryland and Virginia, was sent by his commander to receive the decision of Gov. Shirley, then the commander-in-chief of the Eng- lish forces in America, on some question of precedence between the crown and the provincial troops. His reception, even at that early period in his history, was enthusiastic, the story of his gal- lantry on the fatal scene of Braddocks defeat having gone before him. His second, more historic visit was in the battle-summer of I 775, the visit begin- ning with the scene under the Old Elm at Cambridge, and ending with the scene at Dorchester 1-leights. And now he came once more, the unanimously chosen chief magistrate of the Republic xvhich owed its existence to his wisdom, skill, and courage, and the worlds most illus- trious patriot and hero. On the r~th of October, 1789, President Washington started from his official resi- dence in New York City on his tour in the Eastern States. It would be interest- inrr to trace all the steps of his journey a through New England. He travelled in his private carriage, with four horses, and was accompanied by his official and pri- vate secretaries, - Major Jackson and Mr. Tobias Lear, and by six servants, includ- ing Billy, his personal attendant all through the Revolutionary War, or, as Washington himself referred to it, our dispute with Great Britain. Of the first day of the journey, Wash- ingtons diary has this record The Road for the greater part, indeed the whole way, was very rough and stony. . . . We scarcely passed a farmhouse that did not abd. in Geese. . . . The distance of this days travel was 31 miles, in which we passed through East Chester, New Rochelle, and Mamaroneck. lJpon inquiry, we find their crops of Wheat and Rye have been abundant though of the first they had sown rather sparingly on acct. of the destruction which had of late years been made of that grain by what is called the hessian fly. The first New England town they entered was Stamford, Conn. At Strat- ford the party had their first extensive reception, with what the President called an effort of Military parade. Thence they proceeded through Milford and West Haven to New Haven. Of the latter the diary says TheCity of New tiaven occupic a good deal of ground, but is thinly, though regularly, laid out and built. The number of souls in it are said to be about 4,000. There is an Episcopal Church and 3 Congregational Meeting-houses and a College, in which there are at this time about 120 students under auspices of Doctor Styles. The harbour of this place is not good for large ves- sels abt. 16 belong to it. . . . The road from Kingsbridge to this place runs as near the Sound as the Bays and Inlets will allow, but from hence to Hartford it leaves the Sound and runs near to the Northward. It is noticeable that almost throughout the diary the writer makes a careful dis- tinction between Episcopal churches and Congregational ince/big-/touses. The party spent Sunday, Oct. i8, at New Haven, a//endin~r church in the morning, and going /0 mee/ing in the afternoon. Leaving New Haven at six oclock Monday morning, they took breakfast at Wallingford at half past eight. It was the eighth anniversary of the surrender of Cornwallis, but Washington does not re- fer to this fact in the diary. Passing through Middletown and Weathersfieid, the distinguished party reached Hartford about sunset. They remained in Hart- ford from the evening of the a9th until Wednesday morning, Oct. 21. Washing- ton was especially interested in the Hart- ford woollen factory. Their Broad- cloths, he says, are not of the first quality as yet, but they are good; as are their Coatings, Cassimeres, Serges, and
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1874 Vera Cruz Mexico View Print 1874 Original Magazine Print. Removed from an Antique Magazine.
Size about 6"x9".
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