. Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. . tally asthe burial of the dead is in a plague-struck are the things he sees, and must will not become a better artist thereby; nodrawing of supreme beauty, or beautiful things,will be possible to him. Yet we cannot say heought to have done anything else, nor can wepraise him specially in doing this. It is hisfate; the fate of all the bravest in that day. 175. For instance, there is no scene aboutwhich a shallow and feeble painter w
. Ariadne florentina; six lectures on wood and metal engraving, with appendix; given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas term, 1872. . tally asthe burial of the dead is in a plague-struck are the things he sees, and must will not become a better artist thereby; nodrawing of supreme beauty, or beautiful things,will be possible to him. Yet we cannot say heought to have done anything else, nor can wepraise him specially in doing this. It is hisfate; the fate of all the bravest in that day. 175. For instance, there is no scene aboutwhich a shallow and feeble painter would havebeen more sure to adopt the commonplaces ofthe creed of his time than the death of a child,—chiefly, and most of all, the death of a countrychild,—a little thing fresh from the cottage andthe field. Surely for such an one, angels willwait by its sick bed, and rejoice as they bearits soul away; and over its shroud flowers willbe strewn, and the birds will sing by its your common sentimentalist would think,and paint. Holbein sees the facts, as theyverily are, up to the point when vision speaks, then, no THE CHILDS BEETIME.(Fig. 5) Fac-simile from Holbeins woodcut. GERMAN SCHOOLS OF ENGRAVING. 185 The country labourers cottage—the rain com-ing through its roof, the clay crumbling fromits partitions, the fire lighted with a few chipsand sticks on a raised piece of the mud floor,—such dais as can be contrived, for use, notfor honour. The damp wood sputters; thesmoke, stopped by the roof, though the rainis not, coils round again, and down. But themother can warm the childs supper of breadand milk so—holding the pan by the longhandle; and on mud floor though it be, theyare happy,—she, and her child, and its brother,—if only they could be left so. They shall notbe left so : the young thing must leave them -will never need milk warmed for it any would fain stay,—sees no angels—feels onlyan icy grip on its hand, and that it can
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