Portraits In Norfolk Houses Vol 2 Classic Reprint

Author : Frederick Duleep Singh
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781396645372
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint) written by Frederick Duleep Singh and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-06 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Portraits in Norfolk Houses, Vol. 2 My brother, when a tiny child, Spent many happy hours with his mother and eldest brother, Victor (whose exquisite taste was shown in later years by his Choice of objets d'art of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), in picture galleries and exhibitions, and so his natural tendencies and inborn love of the beautiful gradually developed. His love for the mediaeval was inherited from his mother. His appreciation of beauty in art and music was alike inherited from Ranjit Singh, who, in later life, was surrounded by the most exquisite objets d'art of Persia, Kashmir, and the Punjab. Some of his tents were lined with crimson silk admirably embroidered in soft colours. His courtiers had to be superbly attired, but in his own dress he was restrained and wore but a few Choice jewels - the Koh-i-nur for its political Significance. Ranjit Singh Spent fabulous sums in acquiring the most beautiful horse of his time, which along with others was always kept where he could see them. He embellished several temples and gilded their roofs, making them Objects of radiant beauty. Music, which he loved, he heard each day on instruments of the most lovely tones. My brother in his school days, when spending his holidays at Elveden, would go for long rides by himself to look at churches and houses and would come back with glowing accounts of the interesting and beautiful things he had seen and the stories and legends connected with them. In his copy-books may be seen rough drawings of a pew - head, a church window. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.