McKay, William Darling, 1844-1924 · London : Duckworth and Co.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 306
thenearer figures, and the solid masonry and timber-work ofthe gloomy portal. On the sea-line a three-masted shipstrikes against the lightening sky, on which a few stars aredimly visible. A sense of overmastering destiny and theweakness of the individual fills the mind when looking onthis weird and… … < a Q 2 Q <■J HOO U3[I. O DAVID SCOTT AND WILLIAM DYCE 241 clasped round—to quote the artists early note-book— with a great hand of steel. Everything deepens theimpression : the rigid attitude and ashen countenance ofthe victim, his guard with ready halberds, the rasp of thegreat chain as the…
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