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 53
er thewhole foot, marking this binding power the more, and that he has verily got something to hold with hisfeet, other than a flower. He is, primarily with his eagle nature, vnde awake; evidently quiteready for whatever may happen ; and with his lions nature, laid all his length on his belly,… … - more trouble about it than is absolutely necessary. He has merely got a poisonous winged dragon tohold, and for siich a little matter as that, he may as well do it lying down and at his ease, looking outat the same time for any other piece of work in his way. He takes the dragon by the middle,…
Art Treasures Exhibition (1857 : Manchester, England) · Painters
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