Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 73
on the other hand x-rays openly for him; a burgher ofConstance looks at him with interest, but a young woman near liim shows the deepestsympathy. This is a portrait of the wife of Lessing, who is thus ingeniously made to expressher sympathy both with her husband as an artist and with his principles… … THE MARTYRDOM OF HUSS. BY CHARLES FREDERIC LESSING. picture is to be accepted at all. Lessing does not mean to give a picture of the scene thatshall be historically true: it is a tableau, a stage-xDicture, and it is arranged as it is with fullconsciousness, no doubt, of its artificiality, but wdth…
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