Chronology Entry
Year
1848
Text
Williams, S. Wells. The Middle kingdom. Vol. 2 [ID D2096].
"Even the best painters have no proper idea of perspective, or of blending light and shade, but the objects are exhibited as much as possible on a flat surface, as if the painter drew his picture from a balloon, and looked at the country with a vertical sun shining above him. As might be inferred from their deficiencies in linear drawing and landscapes, they eminently fail in delineating the human figure in its right proportions, position, and expressions, and of grouping the persons introduced into a piece in natural attitudes…"
"Even the best painters have no proper idea of perspective, or of blending light and shade, but the objects are exhibited as much as possible on a flat surface, as if the painter drew his picture from a balloon, and looked at the country with a vertical sun shining above him. As might be inferred from their deficiencies in linear drawing and landscapes, they eminently fail in delineating the human figure in its right proportions, position, and expressions, and of grouping the persons introduced into a piece in natural attitudes…"
Mentioned People (1)
Williams, S. Wells
(Utica, N.Y. 1812-1884 New Haven, Conn.) : Missionar American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Drucker, Diplomat, Sinologe, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures Yale University
Subjects
Art : Painting and Calligraphy
Documents (1)
| # | Year | Bibliographical Data | Type / Abbreviation | Linked Data |
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| 1 | 1848 |
Williams, S. Wells. The Middle kingdom : a survey of the geography, government, education, social life, arts, religion, etc. of the Chinese empire and its inhabitants. With a new map of the empire and illustrations, principally engraved by J.W. Orr. Vol. 1-2. (New York, N.Y. ; London : Wiley and Putnam, 1848). [Rev. ed. (New York, N.Y. : C. Scribner's Sons, 1899)]. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100655573. . |
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