 | 1817 - Страниц: 254
...long sitting of three hours he chiselled the whole face over, communicating to it the grave humour and comic penetration for which the original was so...flowed on in a full stream, but I thought in individual portraiture it was not equal to those romances where the author had his foot on Scottish ground. "... | |
 | 1832 - Страниц: 598
...was he sought after while he sat to Chantrey, that strangers begged leave to stand in the sculptor'!i galleries, to see him as he went in and out. The bust...Chantrey : — I hope it will never be elsewhere. peared in the Quarterly, written, as I have good reason to know, by the hand of Scott himself. This... | |
 | 1888 - Страниц: 608
...sitting of three hours VOL. I. 2 K he chiselled the whole face over, communicating to it the grave humour and comic penetration for which the original was so...remarkable. This fine work is now in Abbotsford, with an inscripBust presented tion, saying, it is a present to Sir Walter Scott Chantrey! horn Francis Chantrey... | |
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... to stand in the sculptor's galleries, to see him as he went in and out. The bust was at last finished in marble ; the sculptor labored most anxiously, and I never saw him work more successfully : in one long sitting of three hours he chiselled the... 