This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...entire satisfaction to both parties. Their current coin of interchange does not consist of measurable equivalents, the accounts at length become confused and the books are closed. He engraved from Stothard and others for the magazines, mortified sometimes to see that his own designs had been the foundation, so he said, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 Excerpt: ...entire satisfaction to both parties. Their current coin of interchange does not consist of measurable equivalents, the accounts at length become confused and the books are closed. He engraved from Stothard and others for the magazines, mortified sometimes to see that his own designs had been the foundation, so he said, of the subject he engraved; indeed, Fuseli himself acknowledged that "Blake was good to steal from." We may understand the force of this saying if we only look at a design of early date by Blake, called " Plague," well known by means of frequent reproductions. An inexorable severe grandeur pervades the general lines; an inexplicable woo hangs over it, as of Samaria in the deadly siege when Joram, wandering on the walls, was obliged to listen to the appeal of the cannibal mother; a sense of tragic culininiif.inii, the stroke of doom irreversible, conies through the windows of the eyes as they take in the straight black lines of the pall and bier, the mother falling from her husband's embrace with her dying child, one fair corpse scarcely earthed over in the foreground, and the black funereal reek of a distant fire which consumes we know not what unseen horror. It is enough to excite the imagination of the greatest historical painter. And yet the manner is so dry, so common, even so uninteresting, and so unlikely to find its way to "every drawing-room table," that a man of accomplishments and appreciative powers, but without the "vision and the faculty divine," would be sorely tempted to convey the thinking to his own canvas, and array it in forms more attractive to the taste, without being haunted by the fear that his theft would be speedily recognised. In 1784 he set up a print shop at 27 Broad Street, ...
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