A Journey to St Petersburg And Moscow Through Courland And Livonia
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For my part, I looked longest at a Vir- gin and Child, watched by angels all natives of Holland ; the holy mother with lier feet upon a chauffe-pied, and various tools hanging against the wall to show that her husband was a carpenter. This differs from the Russian tradition of the Vir- gin, which is more poetical, if not more scriptural. TRADITION OF THE VIRGIN. 131 According to this account, JMary was a servant of the Jewish temple, and being a child, was admitted behind the sanctum. She grew ...up in the beauty of holiness, till, having attained the age of fifteen, this became no longer proper ; and it was decided by the aged priests, who had come to love her as their own daughter, and who dreaded the idea of parting with her, that one of them should make her his wife. The lot, accordingly, fell upon Joseph, who was then eighty years of age. The French gallery has many good pictures. There is one of Vernet, which struck me as being the best I have seen of the artist. It is, as usual, a water-piece.
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