American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 201
gentle, but a morbid melan-choly. It is questioning, impatient, a little desperate. It is fond of embodying in symbolicforms the tragic puzzles of existence, by which all but the most commonplace minds have atsome time been agitated. Some of the pictures dictated under this inspiration ask, with… … Elihu Vedder.Engraved by Closson. — From a Photograph. reference to mysteries in general, it is to this prop-erty of seeming to have always some further depth,to which we are not quite certain we have penetrated,that they owe part of their continued allurement. The Sea-Sphinx seems to epitomize the…
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