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Identifier: fairwomeninpaint00shar (find matches)
Title: Fair women in painting and poetry
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Sharp, William, 1855-1905
Subjects: Women in literature Women in art Women Beauty, Personal
Publisher: London : Seeley New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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was nothing compared with myastonishment when I became aware of the charming unconventionalitythat prevailed. Every lady appeared exactly as she was painted, and noone seemed astonished at any informality. In fact, there was no em-barrassment even among the gentlemen, except in three instances. Mr.Calderon looked confused and very uneasy when Aphrodite advancedtowards him laughingly, and begged him to run and fetch a towel, as shewas still dripping from her delightful dip in the Ionian sea. Mr. Poynterdistinctly flushed when, hearing some one calling to him, he glancedround, and perceived the pretty young girl, clothed only with a fan, whomhe had painted as High Noon. She had perched herself on the top of aheavy frame, in lieu of the rocks whence she indolently crawled. As forthe President, I noted that he avoided the corner where the lady of theFrigidarium stood calmly inspecting her reflection in the bath-water ;indeed, he did not at any time seem anxious to meet even his beautiful
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Princess Alix of Hesse. By F. A. Kaulbach. 38 FAIR WOMEN Corinna of Tanagra. Probably they had had some slight disagreementin the studio concerning the length of her eyelashes or certain detailsof her dress. H.R.H. The Princess of Wales. By W. B. Richmond, J.R.J. However, I understood how one might prefer new acquaintances.There were several ladies whom I had met before, but towards whom myardour had cooled. So far back as twelve years ago I remembered having FAIR WOMEN 39 almost fallen in love with a Fair Woman introduced to public notice byRossetti under the name of Veronica Veronese. Years had passed since Ihad looked into an art-record of which in my youth I had been guilty;but in a flash I recollected my crude rhapsodisings. There Veronicawas, however, seated near her frame, and listening to her canary. HowI remember that fowl ! Did I not write of it, more Scotice, Thelatter is a pure yellow canary ; and did not an amused critic demandwhat right I had to cast any imputation upon

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