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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
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
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17, a Friendly Lounge,and No. 18, Now do be Seated, may serve as instances.Neither lounge nor chair has any nicety of construction:both, whether from the artists inability to draw or from theengravers over-scrupulous respect for that infirmity, are rude, and have a look of beingdamaged or worn out. Indeed, both are out of drawing. But then the formless shadow of thechair is cut with most accomplished Chinese exactness; every line of the drawing has- beenpreserved; and with the same slavish dutifulness the engraver has followed the lines markinggrain of wood upon the wall. Grain, I suppose; but it is so emphasized (literalness some-times caricatures) that it has more the appearance of the rough-hewn and partially split woodof some log-hut, rather out of character with the beautiful cushioned lounge. I take thesetwo cuts at random: they are by no means exceptional specimens of the style. There isnot even the beauty of mechanical correctness in the drawing; and the engraver has consented
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Engraved by Anthony. From Landscape in American Poetry.Published by D. Appleton & Co.

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  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
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  • bookpublisher:Boston__E_W__Walker___co
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  • bookleafnumber:613
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