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Essays on the anatomy of expression in painting (1806)

Bell, Charles, Sir, 1774-1842 · London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme · leaf 153

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125 the suffused bloated countenance; the eyes, if open, turgid and red with blood. But Hogarth has shewn us that colours are not ne- cessary to represent apoplexy. We must mark the indolent corpulent habit ; the full round head and short neck ; the inflated countenance; the valve-like action of…

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