... in England at the turn of the last century: the novelist Henry James and the painter Edwin Austin Abbey. Detailed evidence is mustered to document James's love of fresh hens' eggs and of the undignified lengths he would go to obtain them through the agency of Abbey and his wife. This short piece is written...

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... in the footsteps of Otranto often also wore their architectural features on their sleeves—or, rather, on their title pages, where “castles,” “ruins,” and “abbeys” proliferated for decades after Walpole's pioneering experiment. Among the pleasures of Townshend's formidably erudite book is the thoroughness...

... drawings was the justification I needed to revisit an archive I have always found congenial, that of Westminster Abbey, where the courtesy of the staff complements the charm of one’s sur- roundings. On arrival I learned that the roll itself has become too fragile...

... Colegate Sir Vauncey Harpur Crewe of Calke Abbey in Derbyshire was of a reclusive disposition. He inherited a preference for solitude and a passion for natural his- tory and the means to indulge both. He may well have been a happy man; if so he seems...

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... The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry on Urswick, by J. B. Trapp, is very good (though not everything can be said in a short space). Urswick was a courtier, diplomat, and ecclesiastic, born 1448 or thereabouts; died 1522. Edu- cated as a boy probably at Furness Abbey in north Lancashire...

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... . “ Ritual and Visual Experience in the Capital Frieze at Chartres .” Gazette des Beaux-Arts , no. 123 ( 1994 ): 53 – 72 . Panofsky Erwin , ed. and trans. Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures . 2nd ed. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1979...

... situated near the entrance to (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1986), 114. the Woburn Safari Park at Woburn Abbey in Bedford- shire. 77. Jenger, Le Corbusier, 8. Such was the enthusiasm...

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