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Adventures among pictures (1904)

Hind, C. Lewis (Charles Lewis), 1862-1927 · London : A. and C. Black · leaf 310

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uvre [Manseli& Co.] The slender, elegant, supercilious figure, arrayedlike a butterfly, stands at the edge of a wood, deli-cately arrogant, the pictorial embodiment of thesplendid unreality of Shakespeares couplet: Not all the waters in the rough rude seaCan wash the balm from an anointed king.… … Painter and King page. It is magnificent in its pictorial breadth andthe distinction of that butterfly figure. Distinguishedtoo, is the great equestrian portrait of Charles inthe National Gallery. Pale, bare-headed, confident,his fragile person clad in armour, his right handresting on a Marshals…

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