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8.--NOCTURNE RIVA.
"The Nocturne is intended to convey an impression of night."--_P. G.
Hamerton._
"The subject did not admit of any drawing."
_P. G. Hamerton._
"We have seen a great many representations of Venetian skies, but never saw one before consisting of brown smoke with clots of ink in diagonal lines."
9.--FRUIT STALL.
"The historical or poetical a.s.sociations of cities have little charm for Mr. Whistler and no place in his art."
10.--SAN GIORGIO.
"An artist of incomplete performance."
_F. Wedmore._
11.--THE DYER.
"By having as little to do as possible with tone and light and shade, Mr. Whistler evades great difficulties."--_P. G. Hamerton._
"All those theoretical principles of the art, of which we have heard so much from Messrs. Haden, Hamerton(?)[23] and Lalauze, are abandoned."
_St. James's Gazette._
[Note 23: "Calling me 'a Mr. Hamerton' does me no harm--but it is a breach of ordinary good manners in speaking of a well-known writer."
Yours obediently, P. G. HAMERTON.
Sept. 29, 1880. To the Editor of the _New York Tribune_.]
12.--NOCTURNE PALACES.
"Pictures in darkness are contradictions in terms."
_Literary World._
13.--THE DOORWAY.
"There is seldom in his Etchings any large arrangement of light and shade."--_P. G. Hamerton._
"Short, scratchy lines."--_St. James's Gazette._
"The architectural ornaments and the interlacing bars of the gratings are suggested rather than drawn."
_St. James's Gazette._
"Amateur prodige."--_Sat.u.r.day Review._
14.--LONG LAGOON.
"We think that London fogs and the muddy old Thames supply Mr.
Whistler's needle with subjects more congenial than do the Venetian palaces and lagoons."--_Daily News._
15.--TEMPLE.
"The work does not feel much."--_Times._
16.--LITTLE SALUTE.--(DRY-POINT.)
"As for the lucubrations of Mr. Whistler, they come like shadows and will so depart, _and it is unnecessary to disquiet one's self about them_."
17.--THE BRIDGE.
"These works have been done with a swiftness and dash that precludes anything like care and finish."
"These Etchings of Mr. Whistler's are nothing like so satisfactory as his earlier Chelsea ones; they neither convey the idea of s.p.a.ce nor have they the delicacy of handling and treatment which we see in those."
"He looked at Venice never in detail."
_F. Wedmore._
18.--WOOL CARDERS.
"They have a merit of their own, and I do not wish to understand it."[24]--_F. Wedmore._
[Note 24: Mr. Wedmore is the lucky discoverer of the following:--
"Vigour and exquisiteness are denied--are they not?--even to a Velasquez"!]
