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 237
rms could not, with i)ropriety, have inhabited classical 224 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. structures. His steel-clad warriors, his rabbis, with their long beards, require mysterious dwellings,with trap-doors and winding staircases. As we recognise with pleasure the classic profile in… … quarians, quacks, magicians, gipsies—all this motley but picturesque population are to be met with inthose temples, where the characteristic darkness visible of our ai-tist produces the illusion of immensespace. What an imagination ! What a mind ! In gazing on some of his pictures, the scenes of…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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