ber. Several, not to say most, are in the false style for which the English Etching Club was afterwards to be so largely responsible. Of these the best, perhaps, is the one here reproduced (page 37). The subject is a variation upon one of the groups in the picture at Munich — The Reading of a Will.… … THE POPE AND THE GOLDSMITH. AFTER THE ETCHING BY WILKIE. himself in the foreground, the plate lacks variety and delicacy. The etching sometimes known as Benvenuto Cellini Exhibiting a Censer to a Pope, but which I prefer to call merely 'The Pope and the Goldsmith,' is better in nearly every way.…
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