Conway, Moncure Daniel, 1832-1907 · New York : H. Holt and Company · leaf 344
gon guarding the Hesperides, that this conceptionso early as 1806, when no Saurian skeleton was within theartists reach, presented asingular instance of the sci-entific imagination. As acoincidence with such ex-tinct forms Turners dragonis surpassed by the monsteron which a witch rides inone of the… … 22.—A Witch Mounted(Delia Bella). 324 THE CONVENTIONAL DRAGON. Delia Bella, of which this is one, so that it may be ratherto some scenic artist than to the distinguished imitator ofCallot that we owe this grotesque form, which the late Mr.Wright said might have been borrowed from some…
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