The early work of Raphael . THE ART OF WILLIAM QUILLER ORCHARDSON 31 of the Swords was so good a subject that it required nothing but thepainters modulating eye to turn it into a picture. With the next thing1 have to speak about it was otherwise, and here I find an opportunity ofshowing how a good literary theme can be turned into a good pictorial oneby taking a few judicious liberties. Every one is familiar with the delightful scene in Woodstock where. permission of Humphrey Roberts, Esq., owner of the copyright. Roger Wildrake carries Mark Everards cartel to the supposed LouisKern
The early work of Raphael . THE ART OF WILLIAM QUILLER ORCHARDSON 31 of the Swords was so good a subject that it required nothing but thepainters modulating eye to turn it into a picture. With the next thing1 have to speak about it was otherwise, and here I find an opportunity ofshowing how a good literary theme can be turned into a good pictorial oneby taking a few judicious liberties. Every one is familiar with the delightful scene in Woodstock where. permission of Humphrey Roberts, Esq., owner of the copyright. Roger Wildrake carries Mark Everards cartel to the supposed LouisKerneguy. Let us get to business, sir, if you please, said the King. < Youhave a message for me, you say ? * True, sir, replied Wildrake ; lam the friend of Colonel Mark-ham Everard, sir, a tall man, and a worthy person in the field, although 32 THE ART OF WILLIAM QUILLER ORCHARDSON I could wish him a better cause. A message I have to you, it iscertain, in a slight note, which I take the liberty of presenting withthe usual formalities. So saying, he drew his sword, put the billethe mentioned upon the point, and, making a profound bow, presentedit to Charles. The disguised monarch accepted it, &c. Now that is the whole scene. The only characters on the stage areCharles and the Cavalier. Paint it as it stands, and you will have toquote a whole page of Scott before you can make it comprehensible tothe poor wretch who finds himself before it with
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