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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 425

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 425
ebrious faces and vinous noses, who are accompanyingthat bold songstress on the violin or guitar, while their companions are cutttiug great slices of pastry,or drinking out of bottles covered, like bottles of Florence oil, with a sort of basket-work ?—the wholescene forming a concert, which is at… … And yet in spite of the drawbacks of so ill-chosen and ignoble a subject, what vigour! whatUfe ! what reality I how we are captivated by the magic of the c/mro-05C?tro, by sudden contrastsby the admirable grouping, the masterly drawing, the touch, the handling, the tovi ensemble ! Whowould have…

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