Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 82
as a compromise be-tween fact and fancy, the artist might successfully stave off the troublesome questions of aGradgrind who should insist on asking, what this buxom maiden is doing all alone on thisbarren shore; whether this boat, stranded high and dry on the bank, is hers; and whether in ART AND… … THE FISHERMAIDEN.FROM THE PICTURE BY HERMANN KAULBACH. take our morning-stroll on the beach, for all the world as if the cold, clammy, slippery thingswere fresh-cut roses! And, indeed, there is a merry twinkle in Piscatorias eye as if she werelaughing to herself at Gradgrinds dulness! 222 ART AND…
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