The digressions of V., written for his own fun and that of his friends (1910)
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. · leaf 397
I think well distributed.First, as to its being a sketch for a picture, or a copy of a picture:On close examination you find what the Italians call pentimenti— changes. The height of a door on the right has been changed,and especially a hand which has eight fingers, thus recalling thatfamous horse… … V. oz Z 2 < w X u 0 o < atQ A STRANGE PICTURE 357 From the haste shown in some of the heads, and their being outof proportion when compared with the figures, and the jammingin of figures where they could not possibly go, we are thrownback on the sketch theory again. Subject: at first and for…
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Artists
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