The Life of Sir David Wilkie: With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art; and a Selection from His Correspondence, Volumen3J. Murray, 1843 |
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... feel so highly ho- noured , I hope to get accomplished by next Spring Exhibition . D. W. TO ANDREW WILSON , ESQ . September , 1828 . I have already sold my four Italian subjects ; and the four Spanish pictures , a series of ...
... feel so highly ho- noured , I hope to get accomplished by next Spring Exhibition . D. W. TO ANDREW WILSON , ESQ . September , 1828 . I have already sold my four Italian subjects ; and the four Spanish pictures , a series of ...
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... feel somewhat better now than on my arrival from the Continent , and I am again trying to work . The fatigue of writing , however , is such , that you must excuse this not being written in my own hand , & c . D. W. TO SIR WILLIAM ...
... feel somewhat better now than on my arrival from the Continent , and I am again trying to work . The fatigue of writing , however , is such , that you must excuse this not being written in my own hand , & c . D. W. TO SIR WILLIAM ...
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... feel deeply sensible . D. W. TO SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON , BART . Kensington , 29th Dec. 1828 . Nothing can exceed the gratification your letter of the 26th has given me , by your assurance of the kind manner in which you have thought of me ...
... feel deeply sensible . D. W. TO SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON , BART . Kensington , 29th Dec. 1828 . Nothing can exceed the gratification your letter of the 26th has given me , by your assurance of the kind manner in which you have thought of me ...
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... feel it my duty to inform you of the above , and shall be glad to have your advice whether the sketch should not be submitted . D. W. His Majesty liked The Posada best ; but his subjects preferred The Maid of Saragossa , not so much ...
... feel it my duty to inform you of the above , and shall be glad to have your advice whether the sketch should not be submitted . D. W. His Majesty liked The Posada best ; but his subjects preferred The Maid of Saragossa , not so much ...
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... feel you can do it happily and easily . Assure your- self that , if I should lose your assistance , my chief regret would be the state of your own health ; and if I could think it was like to be in the least degree affected by it , I ...
... feel you can do it happily and easily . Assure your- self that , if I should lose your assistance , my chief regret would be the state of your own health ; and if I could think it was like to be in the least degree affected by it , I ...
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admired agreeable ANDREW WILSON appearance artist BART beautiful Beyrout Calder House called Canvas character cheers Collins colours Constantinople Correggio D. W. TO MISS D. W. TO SIR Dear Sir William drawing dress Duke Duke of Wellington engraving excellent Exhibition favour feel figure Gallery genius give hand head Holy Holyrood Holyrood House honour hope impression interest Italy Jaffa Jerusalem journey Kensington kind King Knox labours LADY BAIRD land letter look Majesty Michael Angelo mind MISS WILKIE night o'clock object Pacha painted painter palace Panel picture pleased portrait present Queen remarkable Rembrandt Royal Academy scene seems seen Seguier sent Sir David Baird Sir David Wilkie Sir Robert Peel Sir Thomas Sir Walter Scott SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON sitting sketch Spanish style Sultan Syria taste thing THOMAS WILKIE thought Titian town Turkish Vandyke Wilkie's wish Woodburn young
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Página 422 - If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
Página 160 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Página 95 - Juan Perez de Marchena, happening to pass by, was struck with the appearance of the stranger, and observing from his air and accent that he was a foreigner, entered into conversation with him, and soon learned the particulars of his story. That stranger was Columbus.
Página 415 - ... to refer at once to the localities of Scripture events, when the great work is to be essayed of representing Scripture history. Great as the assistance, I might say the inspiration, which the art of painting has derived from the illustration of Christianity, and great as the talent and genius have been this high walk of art has called into being, yet it is remarkable that none of the great painters to whom the world has hitherto looked for the visible appearance of Scripture scenes and feelings...
Página 302 - Castle and the Old Town, brought within the cliffs of the Trosachs and watered by a river like the Tay.
Página 416 - Judea, 2,500 feet above the level of the sea. Except the Mount, of Olives scarce any hill near rises above her. Her walls, which encompass her on every side, are higher and more superb than any city walls I have ever seen. The square towers of her gates recall those of Windsor Castle ; while their lengthened elevation, with the spires and cupolas they enclose, would have arrested the Poussins and Claudes in preference to all other cities. Her streets are stonebuilt, massive, surmounted by arches,...
Página 11 - The applause of the exquisite few is better than that of the ignorant many, but I like to reverse received maxims. Give me the many who have admired in different ages Raphael and Claude, and I will give up the exquisite few who can admit of no deterioration of a system that has not yet the trial of time to recommend it : take simplicity from art, and away goes all its influence.
Página 131 - Wilkie seems unconsciously to have anticipated the invention (or rather the discovery) of the Daguerreotype, and some of its results. He says : — " If by an operation of mechanism, animated nature could be copied with the accuracy of a cast in plaster, a tracing on a wall, or a reflection in a glass, without modification, and without the proprieties and graces of art, all that utility could desire would be perfectly attained, but it would be at the expense of almost every quality which renders...
Página 417 - Jerusalem towers of her gates recall those of Windsor Castle; while their lengthened elevation, with the spires and cupolas they enclose, would have arrested the Poussins and Claudes in preference to all other cities. Her streets are stone-built, massive, surmounted by arches, through which the solemn vista claims the painter's art, though by that art still unknown and unrepresented ; and the people, the Jew, the Arab, and the more humble and destitute, who never change, recall, by their appearance,...