Blanc, Charles, 1813-1882 · New York : Hurd and Houghton ; Cambridge [Mass.] : Riverside Press · leaf 301
s gossip; in thework of Ruysdael it communicates to us the senti-ment of melancholy that wooded solitudes inspire indreamers ; upon the copper of Thomas Wyck, ofKarel Dujardin, it lends a singular charm to the fig-ure of a beggar asking alms, to the mules trotting along the highway shaking their… … A PEASANT PAYING HIS SCOT.AQUAFORTIS OF OSTADE. tion of a well from which a servant is drawing water,the decaying roof of a grange where the pigeonsare nesting, the overturned cart on which the chick-ens have perched, and even the dung-heap of the ENGRA VING. 275 barnyard in which the swine are…
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