American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . he verb may require executioner instead of executor] for which Ireceived an offered double payment, on which I was sorry to be employed, and of which, whenfinished and approved, I was heartily ashamed. The drawing was by Millais, subject Cleopatra,for an illustrated Tennyson. Unlike some later painters, he had drawn it most carefully on theblock with pen and ink, that there might be no mistake; and it did not seem unreasonable inhim to insist that his lines should be exactly adhered to. Only he was not aware, or did not ?
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . he verb may require executioner instead of executor] for which Ireceived an offered double payment, on which I was sorry to be employed, and of which, whenfinished and approved, I was heartily ashamed. The drawing was by Millais, subject Cleopatra,for an illustrated Tennyson. Unlike some later painters, he had drawn it most carefully on theblock with pen and ink, that there might be no mistake; and it did not seem unreasonable inhim to insist that his lines should be exactly adhered to. Only he was not aware, or did not ?think, that even his ink lines had variety of color, and that the engraving would be printed ofone uniform blackness. He was satisfied with the result: I considered it only as a piece ofunsightly mechanism. Knowing better than he did the capabilities of my own art, I could haverendered in one third of the time all that he sought for, except the unesseittial. The essentialhe lost in seeking for what was worthless. It is no new thing, this deliberate preference of the. PORTRAIT OF FLETCHER HARPER. ENGRAVED BY G. KRUELL. FROM HAKPEKS WEEKLY AMERICAN ART 49r
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