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 290
ur to age,we begin with the figure to the left. How grim is the profile, how weak and prosy the speech inwhich he is evidently discussing the merits of the liquor. Of the middle figure, the whole expression isadmirable. The features convey the idea of vacant wonder, and the eyes fixed on the old… … civilising influences, would have been handsome, and the masses of black hair show that the harsh linesin the countenance are the result of hard work and hard drinking, rather than of age. When, after contemplating this picture of the genuine Dutch School, we have done justice to itsmerits, we…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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