 | 1843 - 750 pages
...error that his colours all fail, ought by this time to be entirely effaced. It is too true that this is the case with the colouring of many pictures painted...with the mistake he had committed, re-assumed his durable system, with increased beauty and vigour, and continued to employ it till the termination of... | |
 | Epigrams - 1865 - 398 pages
...stand longer than crayons.' — Horace Walpole"s Letter t$ Sir H. Mann (1775). It is too true that this is the case with the colouring of many pictures painted...thought that he had discovered a mode of rendering colours more vivid, and employed it, without duly considering the chemical qualities of his materials.... | |
 | John Booth - 1865 - 400 pages
...stand longer than crayons.' — Horace Walpole's Letter to Sir H. Mann (1775). It is too true that this is the case with the colouring of many pictures painted...thought that he had discovered a mode of rendering colours more vivid, and employed it, without duly considering the chemical qualities of his materials.... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 pages
...error that his colours all fail, ought by this time to be entirely effaced. It is too true that this statesman , too proud for a wit ; Fora patriot, too...fate, unemploy'd,-or in place, sir, To eat mutton durable system with increased beauty and vigour, and continued to employ it till the termination of... | |
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The common error that his colours all fail, ought by this time to be entirely effaced. It is too true that this is the case with the colouring of many pictures painted by him during a short period of his life; he thought that he had discovered a mode... 