His Church pictures are devoid of religious feeling, and his etchings replete with sneers at everything which was previously esteemed as authority.
In Switzerland, the charming etchingsand water-colours of Solomon Gessner must be especially mentioned.
He was in his thirty-second year when he commenced his etchings from Velasquez, whose influence may, however, be traced in his work at an earlier date.
A careful examination of some of the drawings made for these etchings indicates a steadiness of purpose not usually discovered in Goya's craft as draughtsman.
He is much more widely known by his etchings than his oils; the latter necessarily must be sought in public and private collections, principally in Spain, while the former are known and prized in every capital of Europe.
The lines of these etchings are to trees, rocks, or buildings, absolutely what these of Holbein are; not suggestions of contingent grace, but determinations of the limits of future form.
But there is more true mastery of light and shade, if your eye is subtle enough to see it, in the hollows and angles of the architecture and folds of the dress, than in all the etchings of Rembrandt put together.
Every line in which the master traces it, even where seemingly negligent, is lovely, and set down with a meditative calmness which makes these two etchings capable of being placed beside the most tranquil work of Holbein or Dürer.
His etchings were esteemed as highly as his paintings, and he had recourse to several artifices to raise their price and increase their sales.
She also executed some spiritedetchings mostly from her own designs.
Apparently, so far as his twelve etchings are to be considered as evidence in the matter, Venice has not deeply stirred either Mr. Whistler or his art.
Illustration] Etchings and Dry-points "His pictures form a dangerous precedent.
The etchings and dry-points in the gallery do not form a complete set.
Now, I leave it to any fair-minded person if the plain inference from this statement is not that the whole twenty-seven etchings were accepted by the English department.
In all his former Etchings he was careful to give a strong foundation of firm drawing.
The purchaser took them to Goulding, the best printer of etchings in England, and it was found that they were not only perfect, but that they produced impressions which had never before been approached even by Delatre.
Whistler's etchings are not generally remarkable for poetical feeling.
Mr. Whistler's etchings are twelve in number, of unimportant dimensions, and of the slightest workmanship.
The exhibition of etchings at the Hanover Gallery has been the occasion of one of those squabbles which amuse everybody--perhaps, even including the quarrellers themselves.
He is very far from being a realist in this sense: though certain of his etchings possess a considerable degree of such realism, it is not what characterises him as a creator or inventor.
Lalauze's graceful and delicate etchingslend an additional charm to the text.
The etchings are uncommonly skilful and finished work; they contain some charming figures; they constitute a true attraction.
These volumes will take rank, for beauty of typography and general excellence of appearance, with any books of the kind that have recently been published; while the etchings by M.
These editions are noteworthy as containing original etchings by artists of high repute.
We may say of this edition of the immortal work of Cervantes, that it is most tastefully and admirably executed, and that it is embellished with a series of striking etchings from the pen of the Spanish artist, De Los Rios.
The merits of this new issue lie in exquisite clearness of type, completeness; notes and biographical notices, short and pithy, and a number of very fine etchings and portraits.
With Biographical Memoir, Illustrative Notes, and Eight Etchingsby M.
Rembrandt, With a Complete List of his Etchings Arthur M.
A very large proportion of his early etchings are studies of seperate figures.
In Rembrandt's work of rather more than three hundred etchings there are scarcely half a dozen subjects that correspond with his pictures.
It is perhaps still not superfluous to emphasise the fact that the etchings of Rembrandt (as of nearly all the painter-engravers or etchers) are original works distinct in methods and aims from the paintings or works in any other medium.
The Roman numerals following the catalogue numbers in the underlines to the plates refer to the states of the etchings as described in the complete catalogue.
Nevertheless as works for the most part uncommissioned and less lucrative than the paintings, we may take it that the etchings are a true reflection of the actual tendency of Rembrandt's genius when least affected by demands from outside.
Fac-simile" etchings of a Set of Drawings, showing the Fortifications, round London, as directed to be done by the Parliament in 1642.
Trikoupis came into power in 1882, just after the acquisition of the rich agricultural province of Thessaly under the Treaty of Berlin had given the kingdom a fresh start.
Norman founded at Hastings the strong government which has been the making of England--the Seljuk Turk shattered at the battle of Melasgerd that heritage of strong government which had promised so much to Greece.
This extremely able churchman and politician, who did a great deal for the peaceful development of his country, was canonized and is regarded as the patron saint of Serbia.
They were indeed no longer capable of effort, but lay passive under the hand of the Turk, like the paralysed quarry of some beast of prey.
First they came as slaves, then as mercenaries, until at last, in the eleventh century, the clan of Seljuk grasped with a strong hand the political dominion of Islam.
Speaking in terms of the year 1921, he liked the magazine covers of pretty ladies, but threw the Rembrandt etchings which he had inherited into the ash-can.
But history, to give you a true idea of past times, should be like those etchings which Rembrandt used to make.
In 1852 a "Comic History of Rome" appeared, written by Gilbert a Beckett, with "ten coloured etchings and numerous woodcuts by Leech.
In 1779 he presented to the king his etchings after Velasquez.
His Temples of Pæstum sound a less morbid key than his Carceri, and as etchings quite outrank them.
Mr. Kennedy shows extraordinaryetchings of his at the Wunderlich Galleries.
His etchings recall Rembrandt's line; but his paintings are miles away in sentiment and handling.
I wish I could show you the two or three pictures he has in his hand or his etchings and water-colours.
That he was suspicious of his fellow-etchers is illustrated in the story told by Sir Seymour Haden, who bought several of his etchings from him at a fair price.
Goya, as Baudelaire pointed out more than half a century ago, executed his etchings by combining aquatint and the use of the dry point.
As we admire the etchings of Mari Bauer, it was a new pleasure to see half a dozen of his paintings, chiefly scenes in the Orient.
There is Rops, for example, whose etchings may be compared to Meryon's; yet who except a few amateurs seeks Rops?
Medal of honor GROUP TEN Engravings and Lithographs Etchings and Engravings (Other than Wood Engravings) Bacher, Otto H.
For Etchings and Engravings (other than wood engravings): Carlton T.
She went down a long corridor lined with etchings on the walls, and opened a white door leading into a big room furnished as a library.
Six volumes in box, with eighteen etchings and photogravures.
Ten volumes in box, with tenetchings and photogravures.
Six volumes in box, with six etchings and photogravures.
Twelve volumes in box, with twelve etchings and photogravures.
A few of his etchings are to be seen in books, and one would like to make them the text for the consideration of other etchings by him, but it would be a digression.
It interprets in an impressive series of etchings how 'Death that conquers a'' is vanquished by the mother whose child he has snatched from its play.
A Series of Thirty Etchings illustrating subjects from the Writings of Rudyard Kipling.
In 'The Earth Fiend,' a ballad written and illustrated with etchingsby Mr. Strang in 1892, the peasant subdues and compels to his service the spirit of destruction.
But in the thirty etchings illustrative of Mr. Kipling's works, as in the ballad etchings, the imagination of the artist is unfettered by tradition.
The result is oppressive, and that is fatal to the value of hisetchings as illustrations of the book that 'it would sweeten a man's temper at any time to read.
In the etchings of Professor Legros death fells the woodman, death meets the wayfarer on the high-road.
The etchings in this volume, published in 1894, represent little of the allegorical actualities of the text.
The Authorized Version of the Four Gospels, with the whole of the magnificent Etchings on Steel, after drawings by M.
Whistler is an admirably delicate draughtsman when he likes; there are passages in his etchings which are as striking in their way as feats of execution, as the most wonderful passages of Meyrion.
Art would be too austere if it were not for the makers of etchings and lithographs, of pastels and water-colours.
Paul the iconoclast then turned his attention to the portfolios of water-colours, etchings and photographs which occupied the lower and deeper shelves of the bureau.
You cannot possibly turn out so much black and white stuff for the sporting journals and all those etchings as well as your big pictures.
Apropos, I have a new collection of etchings that I want to show you.
I shall no doubt find pleasure in examining the etchings which you hold out as an inducement to call.
With Six Etchings by Pierre Vidal and a Portrait of the Author from a Drawing by Flaubert's Niece.
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