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 477
there is aom.ething at once grotesque and picturesque. If 464 JOHN CASSELLS ART TREASURES EXUIBITION. there is something rather too ideal in the mirth and joyous activity of these ruddy children of labour,they themselves are true to nature—they are sketched to the life and from the life. These… … delicate and refined for the boors who accompany them, and are their partners in the labours of theday and the sports of the evening, and will be so in the journey of life. Such lasses as these mighthave suggested Grays well-known description of The Country Girl and her Happy Lot—° What happiness…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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