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Identifier: preraphaelitismp02hunt (find matches)
Title: Pre-Raphaelitism and the pre-Raphaelite brotherhood
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910
Subjects: Pre-Raphaelitism Painters -- Great Britain
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
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so this opportunity is more enjoyed by us than perhapsyou can easily understand. We shall always remember itwith thanks, but we want you to do us one more favour ;the lady here will not allow us to step over the cord to goup and touch the picture, although we promise not to doit any harm. Now, while you are here you can see us,and we beg permission to go and put our fingers on it. No, I said, that cannot be ; it would get soiled ;the more because some of the paint is scarcely dry. Butwhat can be your object in wishing to touch it ? Isaid. Well, he replied, we want to feel what is thedifference between the linen and the flesh, the sky andthe shavings ; we have seen it with our eyes, and wewant to feel it with our hands. No, I said ; I will show you another unfinishedpicture, and you will see that there is no difference in thesurface at all. Ah, but we want to touch the large finished one. I had to be firm, although I am sure it must haveseemed to him and his friends unkind, but then he
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