Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · Boston, Ticknor and company · leaf 356
ush hot chestnutsfrom the top of a heated stove: the struggles of the cat are unavail-ing and her kittens mew to no purpose. This picture was oner soldfor one hundred pounds: it is now in the collection of the Karl ofEssex at Cashiobury, and is worth more than three thousand pounds.It was painted… … THE CONNOISSEURS. (AFTER A PAINTING BY SIR EDWIN LANDSEER.) STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. 339 to show the peculiar power which made him so remarkable, — a powerwhich he was the first to manifest in pictures. I mean that hebegan to paint animals in their relation to man, and to show howthey are his…
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