Title | Scraps from an artist's sketchbook |
Alternative Title | Scraps from an artist's sketch book, with illustrations from the author's original sketches in Rome, Florence, and Venice , photographed by J. Greer, Pendleton |
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Publisher | Daily Chronicle |
Date | 1877 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 118 pages; 12 leaves; 19 cm |
Original Item Location | DG427 .R68 1877 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b2395052~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_003 |
Title | Page 37 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_003_050.jpg |
Transcript | &OME. 37 Mr. E. Barclay, a young English artist of great promise, who has been residing here for some time, and has now returned to England, exhibits three of his works in the Royal Academy this year. These, we are informed, were sent for exhibition last year and rejected. " Try them again," was the advice of his friends. It succeeded ; they are now well hung in this year's exhibition. We would ask what can be said of the judgment of the Selecting Committee which rejects one year what it accepts the next ? If this is not a piece of luck, if it does not confirm the remark we have previously made, we know not what does. Mr. Barclay's subjects are chiefly figures, treated with great originality. The work he was engaged upon at the time of our visit was the " Announcement to the Shepherds." The picture was far from complete, but the finished study for the work showed a beautiful arrangement of colour, and most masterly drawing of the various attitudes of the astonished shepherds, seated on the ground or just awakened from their sleep, with awe-struck expression, not of fear, |