American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 502
d their ways. His thoroughly characteristic painting, The Confidential Friend, which was exhibited forsome time in the Academy of Design, represents two peasant girls walking down one of the white,fern-fringed roads near Carcameau. We see in the opposite character of their faces that… … A. F. BELLOWS. Chapter Eighty-Third. ~*i T T TATER-COLOR painting is an art of great antiquity, ^-^- ^_ t T the first use of water as the vehicle of pigments - -.;*_ , being made by the Egyptians in decorating the walls oftheir temples and tombs ; and its employment can be tracedin the frescos of…
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