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- ↑ For example, relating to 1866, at page 210 of The Pre-Raphaelites, 1984 (exhibition catalogue, various authors), Tate Gallery, London, ISBN 0713916389
- ↑ Gregory. W. H. (April 1884). "The Arundel Society". The Nineteenth Century: 610–625.
- ↑ Barlow, Henry Clark (1870). "Aubrey Bezzi was a music master in Plymouth and became Eastlake's assistant secretary in the Royal Commission of Fine Arts". On the Vernon Dante. London: Williams and Norgate. pp. 36–37.
- ↑ Cook, E. T.; Wedderburn, Alexander, eds. (1908). The Complete Works of John Ruskin. Vol. Library Edition, Vol. XXXV, Praeterita and Dilecta. London: George Allen. p. 384.
Edmund Oldfield (1817-1902), M.A., F.S.A. ... assistant keeper of antiquities at the British Museum; and at one time private secretary to Layard at the Office of Works.
- ↑ "The fresco-paintings of Italy—the Arundel Society". Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. LXXXVIII (DXL): 458–471. Oct 1860.
- ↑ Cook, E. T.; Wedderburn, Alexander, eds. (1903). "The Complete Works of John Ruskin". Library Edition, Vol. IV, Modern Painters, Vol. II. London: George Allen: xliv.
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- ↑ Club, Arundel (20 May 2017). "The Arundel Club: For the Publication of Reproductions of Works of Art in Private Collections and Elsewhere". J.J. Waddington. Retrieved 20 May 2017– via Google Books.
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
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