Our sketching club : letters and studies on landscape art (1874)
Tyrwhitt, Richard St. John, 1827-1895 · London : Macmillan · leaf 286
NG CLUB, the picture. And I should think it was chosen as an example of composition not only because its arrange- ment is easily explained as well as subtle, but because it is a regular landscape, of nature in beauty, without direct appeal to human passion. It is all calm : it is the very contrary… … Fig. 25. is to say, according to the definition of tragedy, by man overpowered by circumstance. Now, here you are not immediately concerned with the doings of man ; they are not represented ; but you are reminded of what Ehrenbreitstein could do. Do you remember Hood's housemaid's description of…
Landscape painting · Landscape drawing
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