John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools (1858)
Cassell, John, 1817-1865 · London, W. Kent and co. · leaf 134
ir Luke Schaub. Walpole, who was certainly no friend to Hogarth, assigns the following motives for his copyingthis remarkable painting. ^From a contempt of the ignorant virtuosi of the age, and from indignationat the impudent tricks of picture dealers, whom he saw continually recommending and… … S:ENE in TUI; house of the ALCHYMIST. from the illustrations op IIUDIBRAS, by WILLIAM HOGARTH. nothing but the effect of ignorance. He talked this language till he believed it, having heard it oftenasserted, as is true, that time gives a mellowness to colours and improves them ; he not only…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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