Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 276
ion, no harmonizing of lines or masses, nointelligible grouping ; the wearied eye seeks rest all over the crowded canvas and finds noneanywhere. In this hurly-burly nobody is really doing anything, though everybody isviolently pretending to do something. In the foreground is a boat, over the edge… … I H zO 3I UJ II- ART AND ARTISTS OF OUR TIME. 179 that quality being a claim that Makart always pays on demand. As the crocodile is notwelcome, two of the occui)ants of the boat are making believe despatch him, but it is plain,from the way they go to work, that the crocodile is in no great danger.…
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