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- 1 2 Free Online Library: A Burges Discovery - Free Online Library, accessdate: April 12, 2017
- ↑ Crook 2012, p. 407.
- ↑ "The Frua-Valsecchi collection". The Fitzwilliam Museum.
- 1 2 Crook 2012, p. 292.
- ↑ Crook 2012, p. 294.
- Crook, J. Mordaunt (2012). William Burges and the High Victorian Dream. London: Francis Lincoln. ISBN 978-0-711233-492.
