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...days when there is great talk of town-planning, much interest attaches to a watercolour panorama of Oxford made by Mr. Girdlestone's great-aunt a hundred years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Oxford Notes | 4/26/1943 | See Source »

...Chesterton ?Harpers ($2.50). Rackham, also known as Rackham Catchings, was a nice house for a murder. Part of it was built in the time of Queen Elizabeth. Various stucco wings added to its ugliness through the ages. Among other things, it contained "many a bad watercolour by ladies of the place, living and dead; a few portraits in the drawing-room, one of which, almost black, was reputed to be a Gainsborough." Rackham had come into the possession of Mrs. Hilda Maple, a widow with a business head. She filled it with bogus antiques, planned to sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Haunted Horseplay | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...exhibition of original watercolour drawings. done by William Blake to illustrate Young's "Night Thoughts", will open at the Fogg Museum this morning. Owing to the fact that the drawings are destined for the British Museum, they will not be exhibited in this country again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG MUSEUM EXHIBITS BLAKE ILLUSTRATIONS | 12/21/1927 | See Source »

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