. Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academician, with descriptions and a biographical sketch of the painter . Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873; Dogs in art; Dogs. 72 Sm EDWIN LANDSEER, And SO year after year rolled on till 1867, the public all the while left in the dark about the lions, the cry being still "they come," when inquiries were made of those who were supposed to know everything concerning them. At length they actually did come ; in the spring of that year they were all in their assigned places; and then it was seen and acknowledged that something, at least, ha
. Pictures by Sir Edwin Landseer, Royal Academician, with descriptions and a biographical sketch of the painter . Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873; Dogs in art; Dogs. 72 Sm EDWIN LANDSEER, And SO year after year rolled on till 1867, the public all the while left in the dark about the lions, the cry being still "they come," when inquiries were made of those who were supposed to know everything concerning them. At length they actually did come ; in the spring of that year they were all in their assigned places; and then it was seen and acknowledged that something, at least, had been gained by the long waiting. The animals, perhaps, are not what they might have been; but they are grand in design, finely modelled, and the heads are wonderfully expressive of menace; as also are the attitudes of these monsters, which are not unsuggestive of some gigantic sculptures of P2gypt. Little or no attention seems to have been paid to details ; there is the form of the animal in its grandeur of pose and in combined outline and volume, but scarcely any indication of its natural covering. Such is a brief history of the Nelson Column, which from its very commencement proved a most unfortunate affair, and in its completed state is far from being such a memorial of the hero it commemorates as England can point out to the foreigner with the least feeling of pride. To have a column there at all, to dwarf still more the National Gallery, already low enough, was a grand mistake. Nelson surmounting it is simply an absurdity; the size of the lions and the massiveness of the granite pedestals on which they rest, serve only to attenuate the shaft that rises from the centre. Land- seer's " monarchs of the desert " are noble objects to look upon in themselves, but they are too large to compose with the column, and even if they were surrounded with forms which would give them assistance and support, everything retires from them diminished and broken ; "and in thei
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