 | Tobias Smollett - 1786 - عدد الصفحات: 506
...his figures are heavy ; and his heads are not always equally beautiful or exprelfivc. With refpeft to the mechanical part of the works, few indeed have...and engraved precifely in the fame manner. Hence the efTecl is flat, and the fleih, for want of fufficient diftinftion, appears cold and filvery. His works... | |
 | Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - 1797 - عدد الصفحات: 430
...his figures arc heavy, and his heads are not always equally beautiful or expreilive. With refpe£l to the mechanical^ part of the works, few indeed have...great fault, however, is want of variety. The naked parta of his figures, tlie draperies, and the back-ground, are equally neat, and engraved precifely... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...With respect to the mechanical part of the work, few indeed have excelled him, either in clearness or freedom of execution. His great fault, however,...and the back-ground, are equally neat, and engraved precisely in the same manner. Hence the effect is flat; and the flesh, for want of sufficient distinction,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...With respect to the mechanical part of the work, few indeed have excelled him, either in clearness or freedom of execution. His great fault, however,...and the back-ground, are equally neat, and engraved precisely in the same manner. Hence the effect is flat; and the flesh, for want of sufficient distinction,... | |
 | 1816 - عدد الصفحات: 782
...of the works, few have excelled him, either in cleamefs or freedom of execution. H« great fan it. however, is want of variety. The naked parts of his...the fame .manner. Hence the effect is flat; and the HeOi, for want of diffident diftinction, appears cold. His works are juftly held in high eltimation.... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1812 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...With respect to the mechanical part of the work, few indeed have excelled him, either in clearness or freedom of execution. His great fault, however,...and the back-ground, are equally neat, and engraved precisely in the same manner. Hence the effect is flat ; and the flesh, for want of sufficient distinction,... | |
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... He drew correctly; but from his style of engraving, which was executed entirely with the graver, the extremities of his figures are heavy, and his heads are not always equally beautiful or expressive. With respect to the mechanical part of the work,... 