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LOVE S MEINIE. 



larly, when you look at a bird, I wish yon to know how 

 many claws and wing- feathers it has, and how it grips 

 and flies with them. Of the bones, in either, I shall show 

 you little ; and of the muscles, nothing but what can be 

 seen in the living creature, nor, often, even so much. 



77. And accordingly, when I now show you this sketch 

 of my favourite Holbein, and tell you that it is entirely 

 disgraceful he should not know what a wing was, better, 

 — I don't mean that it is disgraceful he should not know 

 the anatomy of it, but that he should never have looked 

 at it to see how the feathers lie. 



Fig. 10. 



ISTow Holbein paints men gloriously, but never looks 

 at birds; Gibbons, the woodcutter, carves birds, but 



