Famous paintings as seen and described by famous writers / edited and translated by Esther Singleton (1909)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, Morse, Alice C. (Alice Cordelia), b. 1862, binding designer · New York : Dodd, Mead & Co · leaf 76
he favourite design for the centre beingeither a cross or a large sun with many rays, the favouritecolours being red, orange, and black, blue occurring oc-casionally. The radiance of these sails and of the brightand grotesque vanes at the mast-heads under sunlight is be-yond all painting, but it is… … THE SUN OF VENICE GOING TO SEA 49 in this picture, in the cut of the sail, the filling of it, theexact height of the boom above the deck, the quartering ofit with colour, finally and especially, the hanging of thefish-baskets above the bows. All these, however, are com-paratively minor merits…
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