The early work of Raphael . th all its complication ofropes, ports, and arbitrary bends and planes ? Look at our plate afterHard Hit. Note the crystal chandelier, with its dozens of scintil-lating pendants and the skeleton of gilded bronze peeping through themhere and there. Let your eye search among the various dejecta from anight of dissipation which load a side table, and you will find all sorts ofunconsidered trifles which help to tell the story, such as the wig of thechief swindler, hung inside out upon a bottle, so that its owners headmay stay cool enough for his purpose. All these thing
The early work of Raphael . th all its complication ofropes, ports, and arbitrary bends and planes ? Look at our plate afterHard Hit. Note the crystal chandelier, with its dozens of scintil-lating pendants and the skeleton of gilded bronze peeping through themhere and there. Let your eye search among the various dejecta from anight of dissipation which load a side table, and you will find all sorts ofunconsidered trifles which help to tell the story, such as the wig of thechief swindler, hung inside out upon a bottle, so that its owners headmay stay cool enough for his purpose. All these things are drawn withdelightful precision and painted with an unsurpassable eye for theirenvelope of light and colour. Turn back to our reproduction of hisstudy for the head, shoulders, and arms of Madame Recamier. Whohas excelled it in elegance and in that justness of accent in which liesthe highest test of draughtsmanship ? Slight as it is, the best drawingsof many men more famous as draughtsmen would look amateurishbeside 3 •*-* ^ oq ^4 cq ?^ ^ •-<*• ~^» k. 3S & £ Jv •— ^J <=q «s -^ ^ to ^ ^ <<5 s; *l . ?fc» > *-» ~v, *«** 54 S5 ^. (x «s £«l «3 THE ART OF WILLIAM QUILLER ORCHARDSON 77 About his colour there may be more dispute. Occasionally it risesto a very high level indeed, as in the Voltaire, and such less ambitious
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