The Golden Age of Engraving a Specialists Story About Fine Prints
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" These details may indicate that, in whatever he has done, Sir Seymour could be nothing if not original. In Addison's Spectator there is a passage to the effect that every good man has aholjby, while the bad supply its place with a vice; and it sometimes happens that a man's hobby proves to be the most valuable part of his life- work. It was so with Seymour Haden, and his hobby was etching. . Instances are not rare of men who, having /utterly failed in one career, have afterwards suc- / ceeded... in another totally different. But for a busy surgeon first to achieve eminence in his own exacting profession, and then, comparatively late in life, to take up painter-etching, the most diffi- cult of all the graphic arts, and in it to produce work which ranks him throughout Europe and America as the greatest living landscape-etcher, is only another proof that genius is not tied down by ordinary limitations; that where it exists it will assert itself triumphantly; and that the artist, like the poet, is "born, not made.
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