 Behind is a kind of organ with two angels, not of ideal beauty, and perhaps portraits of the king's two sisters, Mary Lady Hamilton, and Margaret, then unmarried, — a conjecture supported by the uncommon ornament of a coronet on the head of one of "the...  Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Page 10by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - 1862Full view - About this book
 | Allan Cunningham - Architects - 1832 - 358 pages
...buckles and a chevron can hardly be traced, except to the obscure * family of Bonkil in the Merse. Behind is a kind of organ with two angels, not of...in Europe boast of a more noble family picture of this early epoch ; and it is in itself a convincing specimen of the attention of * Pinkerton must have... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - Painters - 1834 - 272 pages
...three buckles and a chevron can hardly be traced, except to the obscure* family of Bonkil in the Merse. Behind is a kind of organ with two angels, not of...angels. Hardly can any kingdom in Europe boast of a morfe noble family picture of this early epoch; and it is in itself a convincing specimen of the attention... | |
 | George Cleghorn - Art - 1848 - 298 pages
...the reverse of this grand piece, one represents the Trinity ; in the other, an ecclesiastic kneels. Behind is a kind of organ, with two angels, not of...head of one of the angels. Hardly can any kingdom of Europe boast of a more noble family picture of this early epoch ; and it is in itself a convincing... | |
 | George Cleghorn (writer on art.) - 1848 - 330 pages
...the reverse of this grand piece, one represents the Trinity ; in the other, an ecclesiastic kneels. Behind is a kind of organ, with two angels, not of...head of one of the angels. Hardly can any kingdom of Europe boast of a more noble family picture of this early epoch ; and it is in itself a convincing... | |
 | Charles Rogers - Bridge of Allan (Scotland) - 1853 - 490 pages
...the reverse of this grand piece, one represents the Trinity ; in the other, an ecclesiastic kneels. Behind is a kind of organ, with two angels, not of...ornament of a coronet on the head of one of the angels." The small Chartulary of the institution is preserved in the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh ; but from... | |
 | 1858 - 594 pages
...Almaine." '' This is a most admirable work, and Scotland may well be proud of it; for, &3 Pinkerton says, "hardly can any kingdom in Europe boast of a more noble family picture of this early epoch, and it is in itself a convincing specimen of the attention of James III. to the arts."... | |
 | Society of Antiquaries of Scotland - Archaeology - 1862 - 650 pages
...buckles and a cheveron, can hardly be traced, except to the obscure family of Bonkil in the Merse.1 Behind is a kind of organ, with two angels, not of...one of the angels. Hardly can any kingdom in Europe loast of a more nolle family picture of this early epoch ; and it is in itself a convincing specimen... | |
 | Child rearing - 1868 - 268 pages
...three buckles and a chevron can hardly be traced, except to the obscure* family of Bonkil in the Merse. Behind is a kind of organ with two angels, not of...in Europe boast of a more noble family picture of this early epoch ; and it is in itself a convincing specimen of the attention of James the Third to... | |
 | Sir Daniel Wilson - Authors, English - 1878 - 364 pages
...as historical portraits its picturings are invaluable; and- Pinkerton has justly said of it that " hardly can any kingdom in Europe boast of a more noble family 'picture of this early epoch." The features of St. Cecilia are not of that idealised cast of beauty which would... | |
 | Art - 1889 - 254 pages
...been badly engraved. Mr. David Laing, in 1857, published an account of these paintings, and says, '' Hardly can any kingdom in Europe boast of a more noble Family picture of this early epoch." The panel with the Queen and S. George has been given in Shaw's " Dresses and Decorations,"... | |
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