The Picture Season In London
- Editore:
Kessinger Publishing Co
- EAN:
9781419177415
- ISBN:
1419177419
- Pagine:
- 48
- Formato:
- Paperback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione The Picture Season In London
These exhibitions give a great impression of the standing art-wealth of Great Britain, and of the fact that, whether or no the English people have painted, the rest of the world has painted for them. They have needed pictures; it is ungracious to look too narrowly at the grounds of the need. Formerly it was supplied almost exclusively by the lordly operation of purchase; now it is gratified by the simpler process of paying a shilling to an extremely civil person in a front shop and passing into certain maroon-draped penetralia, where the London daylight is most artfully economized, and where a still more civil person supplies you with a neat literary explanation of the pictures, majestically printed on cardboard, and almost as clever as an article in a magazine.