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The Art journal (1849)

London : George Virtue · leaf 59

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ng truth, now in his advanced strength and fortress stormed. Of the assault he has painted a picture that vigour put to canvas works of incisive force that preached may take rank among his strongest, bitterest bits of satire paint¬ ocularly, as it has never been preached before, the horror and ing,… … as great, such as epidemics I succeeding the battle the field hospitals were choked with and earthquakes. His answer is straightforward: “I am i wounded, for the number of casualties had exceeded the a painter, and I paint what I have seen. I have seen war, I estimate beyond all proportion. The…

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