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The earlier English water-colour painters (1897)

Monkhouse, W. Cosmo (William Cosmo), 1840-1901 · London, Seeley · leaf 92

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BritishMuseum for distance and delicate colour arethose of Hitchin Priory, Herts, and NearAskstead, Surrey (1859, 5, 28, 211, 210). Forelegance of composition (not altogether uninflu-enced by Gainsborough perhaps) is the ViewNear Witkam, with its well-drawn, and elegantlyintroduced cart and horses,… … ^ Hearne, Rooker, Malton. 65 plishment of the Hitchin, nor of two beautifuldrawings of Chepstow and Monmouth, whichwere executed in 1794. For elegance of com-position the latter is the most charming of all,and its aerial perspective is perfect. Allow-ing for the suggestion of Gainsborough in…

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