Description:Excerpt from Charles Memoir Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher: A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works Au commencement du mois de Juin dernier, M. Marcus Huilh me demanda mon travail au nom des amateurs anglais. Je ne pouvais me rcfufcr a d'aufli honorables et fympathiqucs follicitations. Je favais d'aillcurs combicn I'Angleterre P6tait paflionnee pour !es ceuvres de Charles M6ryon. II dtait temps que je mifle en lumiere tout ce qui pouvait fervir a le faire definitivement connaitre. Des 1859, je l'avais prefent a la Gazette des Beaux-Slrts, et je lui avais fait commander des planches. A ce moment il etait encore fi peu connu en dehors du cercle des artiftes et de quelques hommes de lettres, que mon premier article excita du mecontentement. On trouva que 'j'cncouragcais ouvertcmcnt l'abandon dc la tradition.' Mais apres le fccond article, il y eut dans le bureau de la Revue une fcene tres-vivc. Un des dirc&eurs demandait avee ironic, 1 Combicn I'on accorderait de livraifons a Raphael, puifque Ton en confecrait deux a un aquafortifte vivant?' Je puis dire fans manquer a la modeftie, que mon heureufe audace eut de bons refultats. Les deux articles, Tun biographique et l'autre defcriptif, furent conftamment confultes et citds par les amateurs d'eaux-fortes. Je n'abandonnai jamais Mdryon ni fon oeuvre. Lorf-qu'il mourvt jc publiai dc nouveau un article fur les Portraits, lcqucl a rcparu, revu et ampliflie, dans mon livre Mai ires et Petits-maitres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Charles Memoir Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher: A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Charles Memoir Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher: A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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Charles Memoir Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher: A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works (Classic Reprint)
Description: Excerpt from Charles Memoir Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher: A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works Au commencement du mois de Juin dernier, M. Marcus Huilh me demanda mon travail au nom des amateurs anglais. Je ne pouvais me rcfufcr a d'aufli honorables et fympathiqucs follicitations. Je favais d'aillcurs combicn I'Angleterre P6tait paflionnee pour !es ceuvres de Charles M6ryon. II dtait temps que je mifle en lumiere tout ce qui pouvait fervir a le faire definitivement connaitre. Des 1859, je l'avais prefent a la Gazette des Beaux-Slrts, et je lui avais fait commander des planches. A ce moment il etait encore fi peu connu en dehors du cercle des artiftes et de quelques hommes de lettres, que mon premier article excita du mecontentement. On trouva que 'j'cncouragcais ouvertcmcnt l'abandon dc la tradition.' Mais apres le fccond article, il y eut dans le bureau de la Revue une fcene tres-vivc. Un des dirc&eurs demandait avee ironic, 1 Combicn I'on accorderait de livraifons a Raphael, puifque Ton en confecrait deux a un aquafortifte vivant?' Je puis dire fans manquer a la modeftie, que mon heureufe audace eut de bons refultats. Les deux articles, Tun biographique et l'autre defcriptif, furent conftamment confultes et citds par les amateurs d'eaux-fortes. Je n'abandonnai jamais Mdryon ni fon oeuvre. Lorf-qu'il mourvt jc publiai dc nouveau un article fur les Portraits, lcqucl a rcparu, revu et ampliflie, dans mon livre Mai ires et Petits-maitres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Charles Memoir Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher: A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works (Classic Reprint). To get started finding Charles Memoir Sailor, Engraver, and Etcher: A Memoir and Complete Descriptive Catalogue of His Works (Classic Reprint), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.