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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 229

An illustration from John Cassell's Art treasures exhibition: containing engravings of the principal masterpieces of the English, Dutch, Flemish, French, and German schools, 1858, leaf 229
ut taking one side or the other. The reahty of tliis boar hunt is tested and proved by the fact,that all who look at it are warmly on the side of the boar. The expression of his life-like, fiery eye isalmost harrowing in its intense agony of endurance. The dogs seem Hke a rabble let loose upon… … English justice—the very ground on which they lie, and the tree that marks the spot of many a death-gasp, all unite to inake this picture Sneyderss masterpiece. The brave boar may fall, but if he does,like Peggy Lobkinss relative?, he will die game, in every sense of the word. Sneyders has this…

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