. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. teps of a magnificent baronial mansion, his paternal home, and surroundedby his family, to receive the congratulations of his fathers tenantry, forwhom a substantial repast is being set out in the court-yard. There areupwards of sixty figures introduced into the composition, each one acharacter carefully studied, and sustaining its individuality no less than itspresumed right to be present on such an occasion. Many of our readers havedoubtless seen Mr. Rolls fine engraving from the picture, which waspresented to the subsc
. British painters; with eighty examples of their work engraved on wood. teps of a magnificent baronial mansion, his paternal home, and surroundedby his family, to receive the congratulations of his fathers tenantry, forwhom a substantial repast is being set out in the court-yard. There areupwards of sixty figures introduced into the composition, each one acharacter carefully studied, and sustaining its individuality no less than itspresumed right to be present on such an occasion. Many of our readers havedoubtless seen Mr. Rolls fine engraving from the picture, which waspresented to the subscribers to the Art Union of Glasgow. In the Academy exhibition of 1850 Frith exhibited a subject from DonQuixote, the passage of the narrative which describes Sancho as telling atale to the Duke and Duchess, to prove that the Knight of La Mancha is atthe bottom of the table. Sancho is placed with his back to the spectator,consequently the interest of the composition is centred in the figures of theDuke and Duchess and in that of Don Quixote, who is rising from his seat. w it - I S s O & ^ I w2;wo
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