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"Even such a well-worn subject as the Riva degli Schiavoni is made original (?) by being taken from a high point of view, and looked at lengthwise, instead of from the ca.n.a.l."
31.--DRURY LANE.
"In Mr. Whistler's productions one might safely say that there is no culture."--_Athenaeum._
32.--THE BALCONY.
"His colour is subversive."--_Russian Press._
33.--ALDERNEY STREET.
"The best art may be produced with trouble."
_F. Wedmore._[27]
[Note 27: "I am not a Mede nor a Persian."--F.
WEDMORE.]
34.--THE SMITHY.
"They produce a disappointing impression."
"His Etchings seem weak when framed."[28]
_P. G. Hamerton._
[Note 28: Mr. Hamerton does also say:
"Indifference to beauty is however compatible with splendid success in etching, as the career of Rembrandt proved."--_Etching and Etchers._]
35.--STABLES.
"An unpleasing thing, and framed in Mr. Whistler's odd fas.h.i.+on."--_City Press._
36.--THE MAST.
[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_
At the service of critics of unequal sizes.
[Ill.u.s.tration]]
"The Mast and the Little Mast are dependent for much of their interest, on the drawing of festoons of cord hanging from unequal heights."
_P. G. Hamerton._
37.--TRAGHETTO.
"The artist's present principles seem to deny him any effective chiaroscuro."--_P. G. Hamerton._
[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_
"Sometimes generally always."
[Ill.u.s.tration]]
"Mr. Whistler's figure drawings, generally defective and always incomplete."
38.--FIs.h.i.+NG BOAT.
"Subjects unimportant in themselves."
_P. G. Hamerton._
39.--PONTE PIOVAN.
"Want of variety in the handling."
_St. James's Gazette._
40.--GARDEN.
"An art which is happier in the gloom of a doorway than in the glow of the suns.h.i.+ne, and turns with a pleasant blindness from whatsoever in Nature or Man is of perfect beauty or n.o.ble thought."--_'Arry._
41.--THE RIALTO.
"Mr. Whistler has etched too much for his reputation."--_F. Wedmore._
[Sidenote: _REFLECTION:_
This critic, true, is a Slade Professor.
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"Scampering caprice."--_S. Colvin._
