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Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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GUM SM-SingtffiVflpiB*-*- n Hi? fWm^ ,,n Drawn by Taylor. The castle stood with its courts in shade,And all its toothed towers imprestOn the sorrowful light that sunset made. Taylor has a happy advantage over many other illustrators in being able to supply notonly the pictures, but also the purely decorative work in a fine book. His designs for the 3i6 AMERICAN ART covers, titlepages, head and tail pieces, ornaments and letterings, are exceedingly good, someof them the daintiest devices imaginable, in harmony with the tone of the text and emblematicof its theme. Such is the charming fancy of the rose twined around the sword, and theverse of The Earls Return, both given herewith. And here some words of thoroughly-earned praise should be given to the exquisite still lifes which he drew for the de luxeedition of Lalla Rookh — mainly Eastern armor, weapons, metal work, and the like.
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The Grange Garden. Drawn by Taylor. Another poet with whose magic creations our artists pencil has had much to do, is Tennyson, his Most musical, most melancholy, poems of Mariana and Mariana in the South, having been furnished with several admirabledrawings, in which is portrayed with sympathetic art the dejected maiden in the moated grange,forsaken by the false Angelo: — Twice treble shame on Angelo,who Left her in tears, and dried not one of them with his comfort. The Laureates idyl of Dora, that simple yet masterly picture of pride and love and grief,a drama of human life concentrated in the shortest and plainest words, which reflect the greatgenius of Tennyson as much as the beautiful pen-pictures which usually enrich his verse — hasbeen illustrated by Taylor. So, also, has The Holy Grail, in a series of designs, some of whichare particularly striking, though their full merit cannot be judged without seeing the drawingsthemselves; for in this case as in others, the artists wo

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