"Limning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... value on the image of my departed friend. He knew, he added, that it would be doing me an injury to take it from me, and would only have five copies taken, which his wives should wear, and would then return me the original with his own hand. In this art of limning or painting in water colours, his artists are wonderfully expert. But he liked not the other picture, which was painted ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume IX. • Robert Kerr |
