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"Oil painting" Quotes from Famous Books

... you approve of my taste, your Excellency," she said complacently. "Have you seen our new oil painting which my husband has just purchased ...

— The Lost Despatch • Natalie Sumner Lincoln

... carpet covered the floor, while the entire Jenkins family—there were four olive branches—done in crayon by a local photographer, adorned the walls. It would be more truthful to say, adorned three walls. The fourth was sacred to a real oil painting in an unlimited gilt frame, which had come as a prize for extra subscriptions to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Mrs. Jenkins regarded this treasure almost with reverence. "I do think it is real uplifting to have a work of art in the house, don't you, Mrs. Brown?" she had been heard ...

— Chicken Little Jane on the Big John • Lily Munsell Ritchie

... knees and rushed to the wall opposite, on which was a large oil painting, which represented Elizabeth herself as a child playing ...

— Henry VIII And His Court • Louise Muhlbach

... should be used as soon as made; and if two coats be laid on, it may afterwards be polished with a woollen cloth till it becomes as bright as varnish. If applied to places exposed to moisture, the painting should be rubbed over with the yolk of an egg, which will render it as durable as the best of oil painting. No kind of painting can be so cheap; and as it dries speedily, two coats of it may be laid on in a day and polished, and no offensive smell will arise ...

— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton

... punishment became his just award. In the state legislative palace of Queretaro we were shown the table on which the death sentence was signed by the members of the court-martial, the coffin in which Maximilian's body was brought from the place of execution, and a fine oil painting representing ...

— Aztec Land • Maturin M. Ballou

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