The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville; With Interesting Reminiscences of King George the Third and Queen Charlotte Volume 6.cMary Granville Delany
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 edition. Excerpt: ... know not how this general appearance affected your eye, but mine it greatly clisgusted. Nothing can be meaner and poorer than the general effect, and more opposite to what (we painters) call rich. He would say, I doubt not, that he spread a white ground behind his birds to show their colours more advantageously, but in that I think he is deceived. His rooms are so light that his birds would detach themselves from any ground; and what a gorgeous display of birds would some of those little splendid touches of Nature's pencil exhibit if they were set off by some deep shadow behind 3 Not that I should array a room full of birds (as you do the flowers) in black, tho' I am now fullg convinced that black is the best ground you could have chosen; and as your flowers are exhibited one after another, the ground on which you place them cannot injure the eye; yet I doubt whether it would not appear too dismal if they were spread like Lover's boxes over the whole superficies of a r0om---The substance of what I have been observing is just this----In such an exhibition as Lever's I think regard should be had to the general efect, as well as to the advantageous position of the parts. The former he has certainly neglected, and I doubt much whether he has attained the latter. Some years ago I saw his collection in Lancashire, before he made a public exhibition of it. It contained little variety then compared with its present state, but as I remember, it was arranged in a much more beautiful manner. The conclusion, madam, from the whole is, that you have arranged your flowers with infinitely more taste than he has arranged his birds; and for the truth of this conclusion I hope you will forgive the tediousness of the premises. With...
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