William Morris to Whistler; papers and addresses on art and craft and the commonweal (1911)
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, G. Bell & Sons ltd. · leaf 286
on the whole must be acknowledged, there couldbe no justification for his very injudicious anduncritical pronouncement upon that nocturne ofWhistlers, but it only meant that Ruskin, asmight be supposed, was utterly out of sympathywith that form of art, and did not understand it. Yet great as was… … PANELS FROM THE PEACOCK ROOM. of time, rather than to have dragged the matterinto a law-court to be made game of by counsel, 269 THE APOTHEOSIS OF THE BUTTERFLYjudge, and jury, an utterly incompetent tribunalto form any serious opinion upon a question of art. One feels, however, to a nature like…
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