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Lectures on painting; delivered to the students of the Royal Academy (1883)

Armitage, Edward, 1817-1896 · New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 194

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proved, beyond the possibility ofdoubt, that this position is never assumed by thehorse. Does it follow that the pictures of theseartists are all wrong ? By no means. Speakingscientifically, they are wrong, but science and art,though often bracketed together, are very distinct,and ought to be… … our ignorance. It is impossible to say what the artof the future may be. We may get valuable hintsfrom these and future instantaneous photographs ;we may learn to modify, to a considerable Extent!the time-honored sporting way of depicting horse-races, but I can hardly believe that the struggle…

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