Perrot, Georges, 1832-1914, Chipiez, Charles, 1835-1901, Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · London, Chapman and Hall, Limited; New York, A. C. Armstrong and Son · leaf 256
4; and above, Fig. 21), the vine (Fig. 47), and the tall reeds andgrasses of the marsh (Fig. i 19) are also imitated.^ We feel that the sculptor wished to reproduce all those sub-ordinate features of nature by which his eye was amused on theAssyrian plains ; he seems almost to have taken… … Fig. 119. — Marsh vegetation ; from Layard. The sculptor is not content with retracing, in a spirit of uncom-promising reality, all the operations implied by so great an under-taking ; he gives backgrounds to his pictures in which he introduces,on a smaller scale, many details that have nothing to…
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