Notes and Queries, Number 20, March 16, 1850 by Various
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Hubrecht le Seur in full of 340_li._ for } 2 statues in brasse, the one of his late } 100 0 0 Ma'ty, and the other of our now } 70 0 3 Souerainge lo: King Charles[3] } More to him 60_li._, in p't of 120li. for a bust of brasse of his late Ma'ty, and 40_li._ for carrying and erecting 2 figures at Winchester 100 0 0 Richard Delamair for making divers } Mathematicall Instruments, and } 100 0 0 other services } 68 0 0 [Footnote 3: Qy. the statue now at Charing Cross.] * * * * *{318} QUERIES. QUERIES ON OUTLINE. The boundary between a surface represented and its background received two different treatments in the hands of artists who have the highest claims on our respect. Some, following the older painters as they were followed by Raphael and Albert Durer, bring the surface of the figure abruptly against its background. Others, like Murillo and Titian, melt the one into the other, so that no pencil could trace the absolute limit |
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