Notes On Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy: 1875
Notes On Some of the Principal Pictures Exhibited in the Rooms of the Royal Academy: 1875
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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They are so very quiet in that special occupation ; and never think of such a thing as jumping, when they have had enough, of course? And I should like to bear a Swiss (or English) boy, with any stuff in him, liken himself to a lamb ! If there were any real event from which the legend sprung, the boy's saying would have been not in the smallest degree pathetic : '* Never fear we, father ; I'll stand like grandmother's donkey when she wants him to go," — or something to such effect. 482. The Bab...ylonian Marriage Market. (E. Long.) A painting oi great merit, and well deserving purchase by the Anthropological Society. For the varieties of character in the heads are rendered with extreme subtlety, while, as a mere piece of painting, the work is remarkable, in the modern school, for its absence of affectation; there is no insolently indulged indolence, nor vulgarly 20 asserted dexterity, — the painting is good through- out, and unobtrusively powerful. It becomes a question of extreme interest with me, as I examine this remarkable picture, how far the intensely subtle observation of physical character and expression which rendered the painting of it possible, necessitates the isolation of the artist's thoughts from subjects of intel- lectual interest, or moral beauty.
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