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 357
stone, and those innumerable shmbs and flowers which noAV cover the arenawhere once the groans of the dying gladiator excited the admiration of a conquering but cruelpeople, are, through the magic poAver of Asselyns brusli, beautifully illustrative of our OAvn poetsdescription :— And here the buzz… … JOHN AbSKLYN. FROM A PAINTING BY HIMSELF. Such were the bloody circus genial lawsAnd the imperial pleasure. Wherefore not ?What matters where we fall to fill the mawsOf worms—on battle plains or listed spot:Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot.I see before me the gladiator lie:He leans…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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