Barrow, as quoted by Davis, says, that " when several portraits by the best European artists, intended as presents for the emperor, were exposed to view, the mandarins, observing the variety of tints occasioned by the light and shade, asked whether the... A Descriptive Catalogue of the Chinese Collection, in Philadelphia: With ... - Seite 77von Nathan Dunn, Philadelphia Museum of Art - 1839 - 120 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1799 - 354 Seiten
...occasioned by the light and shade, asked whether the originals had the right and left sides of the figure of different colours ? They considered the shadow...supposed it to have been placed there by accident." But though the Chinese disregard the rules of perspective and shading, their drawings by the eye are... | |
| sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1836 - 484 Seiten
...occasioned by the light and shade, asked whether the originals had the right and left sides of the figure of different colours? They considered the shadow of...supposed it to have been placed there by accident." Though the Chinese certainly do not practise the art of perspective in its correctness, or according... | |
| Nathan Dunn - 1839 - 158 Seiten
...but vice meets with an early doom." * A chang is ten Chinese cubit*, each fourteen and a half inchei. Paintings. [The enumeration of pictures in the collection...781. Six boats of different kinds, on rice paper. 782. Stands, with vases. 783 and 784. Two views of Ponkeiqua's grounds. 785. Six boats, on rice paper.... | |
| Sir John Francis Davis - 1840 - 422 Seiten
...occasioned by the light and shade, asked whether the originals had the right and left sides of the figure of different colours ? They considered the shadow...figure, and some supposed it to have been placed there bg accident.'' Though the Chinese certainly do not practise the art of perspective in its correctness,... | |
| sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) - 1840 - 408 Seiten
...light and shade, asked whether the originals had the right and left sides of the figure of difl'erent colours? They considered the shadow of the nose as...supposed it to have been placed there by accident. Though the Chinese certainly do not practise the art of perspective in its correctness, or according... | |
| Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 338 Seiten
...foreigners, they endeavour to meet the ideas of their employers, by the introduction of light and shadow. Barrow, as quoted by Davis, says, that " when several...supposed it to have been placed there by accident." 1000 to 1023. A series of coloured drawings, (twenty-four in number,) representing the several stages... | |
| Nathan Dunn, William B. Langdon - 1842 - 212 Seiten
...foreigners, they endeavour to meet the ideas of their employers, by the introduction of light and shadow. Barrow, as quoted by Davis, says, that " when several...supposed it to have been placed there by accident." 100C to 1023. A series of coloured drawings, (twenty-four in number,) representing the several stages... | |
| William B. Langdon, Nathan Dunn - 1843 - 176 Seiten
...foreigners, they endeavour to meet the ideas of their employers, by the introduction of light and shadow. Barrow, as quoted by Davis, says that, " When several...supposed it to have been placed there by accident." 1000 to 1023. A series of coloured drawings (twenty-four in number), representing the several stages... | |
| Sir John Francis Davis - 1846 - 514 Seiten
...occasioned by the light and shade, asked whether the originals had the right and left sides of the figure of different colours ? They considered the shadow...supposed it to have been placed there by accident." Though the Chinese certainly do not practise the art of perspective in its correctness, or according... | |
| Sir John Francis Davis - 1857 - 442 Seiten
...occasioned by the light and shade, asked whether the originals had the right and left sides of the figure of different colours? They considered the shadow of...supposed it to have been placed there by accident." Though the Chinese certainly do not practise the art of perspective in its correctness, or according... | |
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