Lectures On the Works And Genius of Washington Allston
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They certainly have done right in placing it on exhibition ; it is a work too valuable, too beautiful, too much of it near its completion, too instructive in many ways, to have been rolled up forever, or seen only by a few, or hidden from the common eye. And, having thus rightfully been made public, the public, on their part, do right also, in subjecting it to the most thorough examination, and in fully express- ing their opinions. Every possible benefit to art should now be drawn from it. The ...fact that Mr. Allston sought and profited by the opinions of those on whose judgment he could rely, during the progress of the work, makes it sufficiently clear that he regarded it as so far completed, as to make it a proper subject of criticism. The subject or theme of this picture, styled the Belshazzar, is too well known to need to be stated in the Scripture extracts which describe it. It must be enough to refer to it. A briefer description may, however, be con* SUBJECT OF THE PICTURE. 115 venient.
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