 For Mr Whistler's own sake, no less than for the protection of the purchaser, Sir Coutts Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have...  The Annual Register - 第 216 頁1879完整檢視 - 關於此書
 | 1905 - 1190 頁
...have seen and heard much of cockney Impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint In the public's face." The words "wilful imposture" were held by the jury (for it was left to the jury) to be a false aspersion... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1891 - 440 頁
...always in some degree forced ; and their imperfections gratuitously, if not impertinently, indulged. For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Among the minor works carefully and honourably finished in this gallery, M. Heilbuth's are far the... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1892 - 164 頁
...have seen and heard much of cockney impudence before now, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask 200 guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The Attorney-General of the day, as counsel for Mr. Ruskin, said that this was a severe and slashing criticism,... | |
 | 1893 - 860 頁
...for libel, Ruskin in criticising one of his pictures having expressed surprise that "a coxcomb should ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public face." Whistler was awarded one farthing damages, and wears the coin as a charm on his watch-chain.... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 444 頁
...always in some degree forced ; and their imperfections gratuitously, if not impertinently, indulged. For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. Among the minor works carefully and honourably finished in this gallery, M. Heilbuth's are far the... | |
 | James Kirby - 1897 - 424 頁
...Whistler's paintings, was able with impunity to charge the artist with the "cockney impudence" of asking two hundred guineas for " flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." But when he accused him of " wilful imposture " he overstepped the mark, and had to pay a farthing... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1899 - 334 頁
...against Whistler containing the following sentence, remarkable for its force, if not for its courtesy : " For Mr. Whistler's own sake no less than for the protection...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." For this insult to himself and to his work the American artist brought an action for libel against... | |
 | Frederick William Morton - 1903 - 96 頁
...himself. In "Fors Clavigera," published in 1877, Ruskin said in a venomous manner of a work of his: "For Mr. Whistler's own sake, no less than for the...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." For this Whistler sued Ruskin for libel. After a trial, which became almost a farce, the artist obtained... | |
 | Thomas Robert Way, George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1903 - 268 頁
...forth a violent attack from Ruskin in " Fors Clavigera." " For Mr. Whistler's own sake," he wrote, " no less than for the protection of the purchaser,...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." MR. WHISTLER thereupon sued Ruskin for libel, claiming ,£1,000 damages for the injury done to his... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1903 - 1192 頁
...the latAT THE PIANO (1H67). 174 JAMES ABBOTT M'NEILL WHISTLER. ter's criticism in Font Clavigera : " I have seen and heard much of Cockney impudence before...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler brought suit, and gave such novel testimony on cross-examination that the eyes of justice... | |
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