The Life of Sir David Wilkie: With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art; and a Selection from His Correspondence, المجلد 3J. Murray, 1843 |
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admired agreeable ANDREW WILSON appearance artist BART beautiful Beyrout Calder House called Canvas character cheers Collins colours Constantinople Correggio D. W. TO MISS D. W. TO SIR Dear Sir William drawing dress Duke Duke of Wellington engraving excellent Exhibition favour feel figure Gallery genius give hand head Holy Holyrood Holyrood House honour hope impression interest Italy Jaffa Jerusalem journey Kensington kind King Knox labours LADY BAIRD land letter look Majesty Michael Angelo mind MISS WILKIE night o'clock object Pacha painted painter palace Panel picture pleased portrait present Queen remarkable Rembrandt Royal Academy scene seems seen Seguier sent Sir David Baird Sir David Wilkie Sir Robert Peel Sir Thomas Sir Walter Scott SIR WILLIAM KNIGHTON sitting sketch Spanish style Sultan Syria taste thing THOMAS WILKIE thought Titian town Turkish Vandyke Wilkie's wish Woodburn young
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الصفحة 422 - If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth ; If I prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy.
الصفحة 160 - See what a grace was seated on this brow ; Hyperion's curls, the front of Jove himself, An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill ; A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
الصفحة 95 - Juan Perez de Marchena, happening to pass by, was struck with the appearance of the stranger, and observing from his air and accent that he was a foreigner, entered into conversation with him, and soon learned the particulars of his story. That stranger was Columbus.
الصفحة 415 - ... to refer at once to the localities of Scripture events, when the great work is to be essayed of representing Scripture history. Great as the assistance, I might say the inspiration, which the art of painting has derived from the illustration of Christianity, and great as the talent and genius have been this high walk of art has called into being, yet it is remarkable that none of the great painters to whom the world has hitherto looked for the visible appearance of Scripture scenes and feelings...
الصفحة 302 - Castle and the Old Town, brought within the cliffs of the Trosachs and watered by a river like the Tay.
الصفحة 416 - Judea, 2,500 feet above the level of the sea. Except the Mount, of Olives scarce any hill near rises above her. Her walls, which encompass her on every side, are higher and more superb than any city walls I have ever seen. The square towers of her gates recall those of Windsor Castle ; while their lengthened elevation, with the spires and cupolas they enclose, would have arrested the Poussins and Claudes in preference to all other cities. Her streets are stonebuilt, massive, surmounted by arches,...
الصفحة 11 - The applause of the exquisite few is better than that of the ignorant many, but I like to reverse received maxims. Give me the many who have admired in different ages Raphael and Claude, and I will give up the exquisite few who can admit of no deterioration of a system that has not yet the trial of time to recommend it : take simplicity from art, and away goes all its influence.
الصفحة 131 - Wilkie seems unconsciously to have anticipated the invention (or rather the discovery) of the Daguerreotype, and some of its results. He says : — " If by an operation of mechanism, animated nature could be copied with the accuracy of a cast in plaster, a tracing on a wall, or a reflection in a glass, without modification, and without the proprieties and graces of art, all that utility could desire would be perfectly attained, but it would be at the expense of almost every quality which renders...
الصفحة 417 - Jerusalem towers of her gates recall those of Windsor Castle; while their lengthened elevation, with the spires and cupolas they enclose, would have arrested the Poussins and Claudes in preference to all other cities. Her streets are stone-built, massive, surmounted by arches, through which the solemn vista claims the painter's art, though by that art still unknown and unrepresented ; and the people, the Jew, the Arab, and the more humble and destitute, who never change, recall, by their appearance,...