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A Wanderer in Venice

CHAPTER X
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Then a Chinese room, and a Goldoni room with first editions of the little man's plays, his portrait, and other relics.

This series undoubtedly brings Venice of the eighteenth-century very vividly before one.
Returning to Room X in the main sequence we find wood-carving and pottery.

In Room XI, just inside the door on the left, is a noble gondola prow in iron, richly wrought, which one would like to see on a boat once more.

Room XII has glass and porcelain; Room XIII has ivories and caskets; and Room XIV has illuminated manuscripts, in one of which, No.

158, is a very attractive tiny little Annunciation; and so we come again to the pictures, in Rooms XV and XVI of which the second contains the pick.


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