. John Pettie, , ; . aparty of bear-baiters, one of whom they put intothe stocks ; but the following day they were over-powered by the rabble, who released their com-panion and set Knight and Squire in his place. But Hudibras, who scornd to stoopTo Fortune, or be said to droop, Cheard up himself with ends of verse,And sayings of Philosophers. In this picture Pettie gives vent to his keen senseof the humorous; and looking through the listof his works, one notes how, as though for thesatisfaction of his own nature, there is a balanceeach year between tragedy and comedy, graveand gay.
. John Pettie, , ; . aparty of bear-baiters, one of whom they put intothe stocks ; but the following day they were over-powered by the rabble, who released their com-panion and set Knight and Squire in his place. But Hudibras, who scornd to stoopTo Fortune, or be said to droop, Cheard up himself with ends of verse,And sayings of Philosophers. In this picture Pettie gives vent to his keen senseof the humorous; and looking through the listof his works, one notes how, as though for thesatisfaction of his own nature, there is a balanceeach year between tragedy and comedy, graveand gay. In contrast to the two last-mentionedpictures is the very low-toned Visit to theNecromancer. The necromancer is a swarthy,almost a black man, who holds a light high in onehand as he draws aside a curtain with the other,as if in search of something that lies in the im-penetrable darkness. In the summer of this year, 1867, Mr. and travelled in Italy, visiting Venice and Rome, PAX VOBISCUM{Size of origi-iial, 21 x 14^.). ASSOCIATE: 1866-1873 87 while the St. Johns Wood studio was lent toGeorge Paul Chalmers. If Treason marks a climax in dramaticintensity and colour, the Tussle with a HighlandSmuggler, of 1868, reaches high-water mark byreason of its action and dashing spirit. A stoutLowland ganger, in thick and cumbrous great-coat,is struggling with a lean, half-naked, wild-catHighlander ; a keg on the ground tells its is a certain grim humour in the scene. Thecoolness and resolution of the ganger, his stiff,determined movements and set face, contrast withthe wild features and fierce contortions of thesmuggler. In the strained tensity of the twostruggling figures the artist shows consummatepower of draughtsmanship. Pax Vobiscum, ofthe same year, is a merry tale to relieve the grim-ness of that fierce fight. There is quaint wit inthis picture of a fat and jovial monk, who is seatedat dinner and pronounces his benediction on a tinymouse which has stolen out in
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