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thing will do ; a Sibyl, a skull, a Madonna and Christ, a hat 

 and a feather, an Adam, an Eve, a cock, a sparrow, a lion 

 with two tails, a pig with five legs, anything will do for me. 

 But see if I don't show you what engraving is, be my subject 

 what it may ' ! 



Thirdly : Beaugrand, I said, wants as much Sibyl as possi- 

 ble, and as much engraving. He is essentially a copyist, and 

 has no ideas of his own, but deep reverence and love for the 

 work of others. He will give his life to represent another 

 man's thought. He will do his best with every spot and line, 

 exhibit to you, if you will only look, the most exquisite 

 completion of obedient skill ; but will be content, if you will 

 not look, to pass his neglected years in fruitful peace, and 

 count every day well spent that has given softness to a shadow, 

 or light to a smile. 



m. 



On Durer's landscape, urith reference to the sentence in p. 112 .- 

 " I hope you are pleased." 



I spoke just now only of the ill-shaped body of this figure 

 of Fortune, or Pleasure. Beneath her feet is an elaborate 

 landscape. It is all drawn out of Durer's head ; he would 

 look at bones or tendons carefully, or at the leaf details of 

 foreground ; but at the breadth and loveliness of real land- 

 scape, never. 



He has tried to give you a bird's-eye view of Germany ; 

 rocks, and woods, and clouds, and brooks, and the pebbles in 

 their beds, and mills, and cottages, and fences, and what not ; 

 but it is all a feverish dream, ghastly and strange, a monotone 

 of diseased imagination. 



And here is r, little bit of the world he would not look at 

 of the great river of his land, with a single cluster of its reeds, 

 and two boats, and an island with a village, and the way for 

 the eternal waters opened between the rounded hills.* 



* The engraving of Turner's " Scene on the Rhine " (near Bingen ? ) 

 with boats on the right, and reedy foreground on left ; the opening 



