Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning and marking due to age. Year 1916. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Now whether Shakespeare is here describing pictures which he may possibly have seen either in the originals or in reproductive engravings or as Sir Sidney Colvin learnedly suggests in tapestries of the fifteenth century or is merely drawing upon his boundless imagination for illus- trations of some of those incidents of classical mythology with which he was so familiar and which he delighted to vivify with the magic of his poetry he certainly shows that imitative rather than suggestive realism with vivacity of presentment is the pictorial quality he most values. The sedges ” seem to move and wanton” with the breath of the beauty-goddess; the unhappy metamorphosis of Jove-loved Io is painted with an effect of vivid illusion; and as for Daphne’s wounds in evading the amorous pursuit of Apollo they and the Sungod’s pitying tears are depicted with a “workmanly” draughtsmanship that achieves a convincing realism. (SP)