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Neither oil, water-color, nor pastel will transmit it no, nor the dry-point or bitten plate. The soot of centuries, the fogs of countless Novembers, the smoke of a thousand firesides were the pigments which the Master Painter set upon his palette in the task of giving us one exquisitely beautiful interior wholly in black-and-white. So it was in the Temple when I was searching for Mr.
The chief thing is that he has abundant brains and in sheer craftsmanship fears few equals. Like Whistler, his principal preoccupation is to suppress all appearance of technical procedures. His method of work is said to be simplicity itself; obsessed by his very definite visions, he transfers them to the scratched plate with admirable celerity. Dry-point etching is his principal medium.
Did you ever see a drawing or an etching by Victor Hugo? Hugo is a poet, and affects to be an artist. "In 'Right and Wrong in Drawing, which is excellently written, the concluding paragraph is admirable. The chapter on 'Etching and Dry-Point' is charmingly written, easy and refined in diction, and set down con amore." Then came this letter from Mr. Browning:
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