Inside Out Library

American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)

Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 576

An illustration from American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects, 1889, leaf 576
yalAcademy, London, and was bought by Lord Walter Campbell. Previous to exhibiting it, theartist made special studies among the inmates of an insane asylum, and altered the character ofthe face, giving it more of the expression which we should look for in the features of the unfortunateOphelia.… … ETURNING from the newspaper history to resume our consider-ation of book-work, I go back again to the period of PutnamsIrving books. The continual reproduction and imitation ofcurrent EngHsh works, to say nothing of the influence of Eng-lish engravers (not a few here since Mason), could not but…

Art · Artists

Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects

More like this