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 353
in moonlight scenes, which he reproduces with mar-vellous skill. A silver river slowly winds its way through the landscape. The tall bulrushes cluster 340 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXHIBITION. along its banks. At a little distance lie a few scattered huts, and further inland we catch a glimpseof… … the slightest ripples. Around the Queen of Night is a circle of motley clouds which shed an uncer-tain light through the darkness. The moon shines in the midst, and is the goddess of the darkenedhemisphere, whose form would be invisible but for her. Goethe himself never conceived a moreinspired…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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