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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ...He was his own publisher, and master of his art; but his intemperate habits reduced him to being a hack of the printsellers, and sometimes a prisoner in the Fleet. Yet, even at his worst, his touch was always artistic, while, at his best, no mezzotint engraver was ever more finely responsive to all the pictorial suggestions of light and shadow. He seemed instinctively to understand the very mind of Rembrandt, and from the richly-grounded copper his scraper, with magic delicacy of strength, would conjure that imaginative infinity with which the master would treat the homeliest subjects. Thus, Houston will always retain an individual place among the great mezzotinters, and be held in esteem by connoisseurs, by reason of those magnificent Rembrandt prints, The Burgomaster; Woman plucking a fowl (Plate XVII.); Man mending a pen; Man with a knife; Hamans condemnation; and The Syndics of the Cloth Merchants. With what delightful tenderness Houston could render the charm of pretty women one sees in Reynolds's lovely Caroline, Duchess of Marlborough 2 19 (Plate XVIII.) playing with her infant daughter; Maria, Countess of Waldegrave (afterwards Duchess of Gloucester) cuddling her child; Mary, Duchess of Ancaster; and the engaging Harriett Powell (Plate XIX.) singing to the bird, as Leonora in Dibdin's vaudeville, "The Padlock," before she was the Countess of Seaforth; in Cotes's Kitty Gunning (Plate XVI.), too, as well as her more famous sisters. To Houston also we owe a few admirable translations of that capital painter ZofFany; Schaak's General Wolfe; and some series of dainty and charming prints after Mercier, such as The Times of Day, and Domestic Amusement; and, after Hay man, The Senses. The success of McArdell and Houston brought other cleve...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151763259
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 26
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 115176325X
  • Publisher Date: 01 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 1 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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