figure, landscape, natural history ? It is right that the human should take priority, but why should the herbs or vegetables, or any number of herbs or vegetables massed together as in a landscape, be placed before the creatures for whom they were made ? AA^e dis¬ tinctly reverse the old idea that… … A Middle Age Donkey. which were under his notice : — “ A^ery good — very good ; nice colour, truthful in drawing; but! — but they are natural his¬ tory subjects.” He at once saw an objection, a “but,” in these w'orks of Art. And why ? Because the artist, forsooth, had neither painted the figures…
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