The Director: A Weekly Literary Journal: Containing I. Essays, on Subjects of Literature, the Fine Arts and Manners. II. Bibliographana. Account of Rare and Curious Books and of the Book Sales in this Country, from the Close of the Seventeenth Century. III. Royal Institution. Analyses of the Lectures Delivered Weekly. IV. British Gallery. Description of the Principal Pictures Exhibited ... V. 1-2: Jan. 24-July 4, 1807, Band 1Thomas Frognall Dibdin, Frognall Longman, Hurst, 1807 |
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... painter does not equal ? what is there of mechanical , which he does not surpass ? —What is the verbal expression of a passion , compared to its visible presence ; the narration of an action , to the action itself brought before the ...
... painter does not equal ? what is there of mechanical , which he does not surpass ? —What is the verbal expression of a passion , compared to its visible presence ; the narration of an action , to the action itself brought before the ...
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... painting . Of these the most humble , but not the least use- ful , is that of penciling for the manufac- turer : the second , that of designing ( as it has been sometimes called ) for the press ; so as to obtain for original works , or ...
... painting . Of these the most humble , but not the least use- ful , is that of penciling for the manufac- turer : the second , that of designing ( as it has been sometimes called ) for the press ; so as to obtain for original works , or ...
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... painting ; in which the skill of the artist is exerted in copying the features of his employer ; with licence occasionally to exercise the fancy and give wings to the imagination , by in- troducing his patron's family into an his ...
... painting ; in which the skill of the artist is exerted in copying the features of his employer ; with licence occasionally to exercise the fancy and give wings to the imagination , by in- troducing his patron's family into an his ...
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... painter's pencil , as well as the po- et's pen ; but either is degraded , when entirely so occupied . The patient in- dustry of the Flemish and Dutch schools has produced for us objects of study , and examples of imitation . But let not ...
... painter's pencil , as well as the po- et's pen ; but either is degraded , when entirely so occupied . The patient in- dustry of the Flemish and Dutch schools has produced for us objects of study , and examples of imitation . But let not ...
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... paintings of HOGARTH , WILSON , and GAINSBOROUGH , do now bear prices , which , bestowed on the living artist , would have produced reward for talent , and incitement to exertion : but , I ob- serve with pain and unwillingness , there ...
... paintings of HOGARTH , WILSON , and GAINSBOROUGH , do now bear prices , which , bestowed on the living artist , would have produced reward for talent , and incitement to exertion : but , I ob- serve with pain and unwillingness , there ...
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