English art in 1884, illustrated by facsimile sketches by the artists, and fourteen full-page photo-engravings; (1885)
Blackburn, Henry, 1830-1897 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 277
The Water - Color Societies . 205 ink — has labored much at water-color. A certain art of comedy attends his performances generally, but in this year’s picture, “ The Peacock and the Nightingale ,” the comedy is slight. It is rather a moral tale — the tale of the triumph of simple charm over much- … adorned and self-conscious beauty. The scene is “in society”; London society in our own day spreading pretty widely, and the fashionable young man no longer bound by the restrictions laid upon him in the days of Mr. Thackeray. He may venture, now, “ north of “ The Cid and the Five Moorish Kings ” (…
Art, British · Painting
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