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Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824

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  • Saint Mary (the Blessed Virgin) with the Christ Child. Etching by C.M. Metz after L. di Credi.

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    The symbolical language of ancient art and mythology : an inquiry / by Richard Payne Knight.

    Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824. | Date: 1892
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    A man and two women performing a country dance in Italy, accompanied by a flute-player and watched by an aged couple. Etching by R. Blyth, 1780, after J.H. Mortimer, 1774.

    Mortimer, John Hamilton, 1740-1779. | Date: Nov. 9th 1780 | Reference: 3063631i
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    The worship of Priapus : an account of the Fête of St. Cosmo and Damiano, celebrated at Isernia in 1780, in a letter to Sir Joseph Banks / by Sir William Hamilton ; to which is added some account of the phallic worship, principally derived from a discourse on the worship of Priapus, by Richard Payne Knight ; edited by Hargrave Jennings.

    Hamilton, William, Sir, 1788-1856. | Date: 1883
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    A discourse on the worship of Priapus : and its connection with the mystic theology of the ancients / by Richard Payne Knight ... To which is added an Essay on the worship of the generative powers during the middle ages of western Europe / [by Thomas Wright].

    Knight, Richard Payne, 1751-1824. | Date: 1865
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