Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 131
farm; a horti-culturist is grafting the shrubs in the nursery-garden; andthis corner of a landscape has sufficed for Hobbema to pro-duce a masterpiece which the National Gallery of Londonis justly proud to possess. This youngest of the greatEuropean Museums is not the poorest and owns very… … THE AVENUE OF MIDDELHARNAIS 89 hesitation or alteration, or the extraordinary perfection withwhich the perspective is rendered ? We do not know.Despite the complexity of the subject, the one defect ofwhich may be a slight lack of unity in the composition, thegeneral effect of the picture is simple…
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