by
W. H. Chesson
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
For years before he reached the great but unsensational age at which he died, a sort of cult was vested in his longevity. Dated plates—that entitled "The Rose and the Lily" (1875) offers the last example—imply that his art figured to him finally as a kind of athleticism. It was as if, in using his...