Picture and Text 1893

May not this fanaticism, in a particular case, rest upon a sense of the resemblance between the general chance, as it may be called, of the draughtsman in black and white, with...

In this limited compass and in the case of such a quantity of production it is almost impossible to specify--difficult to pick dozens of examples out of thousands. Daumier becam...

Dorriforth. You couldn’t put it better. That’s the life that art, with Auberon’s permission, gives us; that’s the distinction it confers. This is why the greatest commonness is...

Nothing is more interesting in the history of an artistic talent than the moment at which its “elective affinity” declares itself, and the interest is great in proportion as the...

There are many things to be said about his talent, some of which are not the easiest in the world to express. I shall not, however, make them more difficult by attempting to cat...

But I cannot go on to say everything that such a seeker, such a discoverer, as Mr. Parsons finds--the less that the purpose of these limited remarks is to hint at our own _trouv...

Two of the following papers were originally published, with illustrations, in Harper’s Magazine and the title of one of them--the first of titles has been altered from “Our Arti...

As I have intimated, he has painted little but portraits; but he has painted very many of these, and I shall not attempt in so few pages to give a catalogue of his works. Every...

Dorriforth. Could you, under Falstaff’s pasteboard cheeks and the sad disfigurement of his mates? There was no excess of scenery, Auberon says. Why, Falstaff’s very person was n...