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 145
that it is examined by disinterested readers,unbiassed by personal animosity, it will be more and more read, studied, and understood. Of the Sigismunda controversy we have already spoken, and of the satirical print of TheTimes, by the publication of which the artist endeavoured to avenge his… … mind of a material interpretation of sacred things, and especially- of the introduction of pictures andimages into places of worship. Absurd, however, as Hogarth has made superstition ai)pear, the realityis more ridiculous than the burlesque; for Burnet tells us that over a Po])ish altar at Worms,…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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