American painters: with eighty-three examples of their work engraved on wood (1879)
Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914 · New York : D. Appleton and company · leaf 183
er cancompete with Nature, but always fails when trying to do so ; and, in the sec-ond place, foolish, because Art has a sphere of her own, in which she is greaterthan Nature. Madame Tussauds wax-figures are very earnest and laborious attempts at realization, but probably no adult human being who… … THE PALMS OF BISKRA.From a Painting by Robert Swain Giffi»</. p. 95. ROBERT S WA IN 0 I FF <> RD. 95 as he views her, and Nature with a revelation of his own feelings toward her.The impress of the man is left upon the work, and the work is the measure ofthe man. He lias something fresh to…
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