American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 603
y thus obtainedavailed not much in washed drawings, where the engraver has to first learn the meaning ofform, substance, and place, and then to invent, that is, design, the lines which shall best expressthese. Little of this, outside of mere color and gradation of color, is to be found… … Mozart. — Engraved by T. Johnson. From Harpei-s Monthly Magazine. manage so difficult a branch of art should com-mit such utter failures in even the simplestlandscape. It may be that the vagueness andeasy inexactness of much landscape drawing isnot permissible on portraits. Certainly the bestwork,…
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