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THINGS IN GENERAI,. 299
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That is to say I took a catalogue and a pencil for the . sole and express hands purpose , and writing of noting about 1 down the every said p x _^ icture _ckures painted anything by that a woman might ' s
occur to me . " " And what then ? " 4 did to
I . F . ' Why , with three notable exceptions , nothing occur me . "
" What an encouraging idea , — "why there are' twelve hundred ani thirty pictures exhibited in this ninety-first exhibition of the
Koyal I . F . Academy " I counted of Arts thirt . " y-two pictures only by ladies , omitting time to
probabl examine y thoroug several in hly the , and miniature was equall room y , struck which I by had the not exceeding
smallness of the proportion , and the exceeding smallness of the subjects . I scratched ' good , ' ' pretty / and ' delicate , ' against that many three
of these pictures , but I can only conscientiously say names and half-a-dozen canvasses left the slightest impression on my memory . "
" And these were ? " I . F . " Two by Mrs . Hay , one by Miss Anna Blunden , and the
Misses Mutrie ' s wonderful flowers . " " I remember a picture by Miss Blunden last year . It was of elder
two little girls sitting in an old castle yard , the decorating the younger with flowers ; very ugly little girls most accurately
painted I . F . . " " Pier picture of this year is just as accurate , and not at isthe aifec
tionate all ugly portrait . Indeed of an I could aged cl look iff on at the it for sea an shore hour , every . It wrinkle . and
twist of his old face given with photographic accuracy . Perhaps I admire it the more because I could not have drawn it myself
without a pair of very strong spectacles . The sea washes up at his feetand the green hills fall away behind him , and there are
, millions and millions of pebbles rolling over his toes at every wave that ebbs and flows . In fact if you like an old cliff at all , there he
is under the name of ' God ' s Gothic , ' and no better portrait could be painted . "
" And the Misses Mutrie ?" I . F . " Miss Mutrie exhibits such a pile of garden flowers , ht colors
geraniums and petunias , and buds and blossoms of all brig , but what delihted me was the bit of landscape against which she
g contrasted them . Why doesn't she paint landscape ? Then Miss A . F . Mutrie has a great mass of Traveller ' s Joy , real wild Traveller ' s
Joy , which greeted one most refreshingly while plodding through those acres of canvass . "
" And Mrs . Hay ?" I . F . " OhMrs . Play ' s two pictures are among the successes of
, the year . They are landscape scenes in the Val d' Arno , painted
very much after the manner of the French school , a little grey in
Things In Generai,. 299
THINGS IN GENERAI _,. 299
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1859, page 299, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071859/page/11/
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