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Dutch etchers of the seventeenth century (1905)

Binyon, Laurence, 1869-1943 · London : Seeley · leaf 66

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its powerof reproduction, by nature probably a delicate and precise faculty, hasbeen warped and blunted by the mans satisfaction in his own cleverness,till it gives an inaccurate image. Berchems work is therefore false, and deserves to be called un-imaginative. It convinces only the incompetent… … Fig. z-].—Mules. By K. Du Jardin. B. z. given the vital image of an animal, he could not resist the temptation ofadding to it non-essential facts. He had not that transcendent intelli-gence which instinctively practises the economy called style. But it 74 BUrCH ETCHERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURT…

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