 | Sir Norman Lockyer - Electronic journals - 1877 - 634 pages
...raised. There may be seen occasionally, especially in continental museums and in private collection*, where amateurs of artistic taste and good knowledge...on these points as the living creature itself. The injurious effect of a low standard of perfection in one branch of art upon another is curiously seen... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1889 - 544 pages
...themselves to the subject, examples enough — -and you are fortunate in possessing them in Newcastle — to show that an animal can be converted after death,...is an art resembling that of the painter or rather the sculptor ; it requires natural genius as well as great cultivation, and it can never be permanently... | |
 | Pharmacy - 1890 - 1130 pages
...themselves to the subject, examples enough — and you are fortunate in possessing them in Newcastle — to show that an animal can be converted after death,...is an art resembling that of the painter or rather the sculptor ; it requires natural genius as well as great cultivation, and it can never be permanently... | |
 | RICHARD WELFORD - 1895 - 676 pages
...possessed "an artist who, by a proper application of taxidermy, can show that an animal may be converted into a real life-like representation of the original,...if not quite, as valuable for conveying information as the living creature itself." In the early days of their manhood Albany and John Hancock had in contemplation... | |
 | William Henry Flower - Anthropology - 1898 - 428 pages
...here and bloated there, and in attitudes absolutely impossible for the creature to have assumed while alive. Happily there may be seen occasionally, especially...on these points as the living creature itself The c fact is that taxidermy is an art resembling that of the painter, or rather the sculptor ; it requires... | |
 | Northumberland (England) - 1890 - 604 pages
...Newcastle an artist who, by a proper application of taxidermy, can show that au animal may be converted into a real life-like representation of the original,...if not quite, as valuable for conveying information as the living 566 NORTH-COUNTRY LORE AND LEGEND. 567 creature itself." Mr. 11. Bowdler Sharp, in a... | |
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... absolutely impossible for the creature to have assumed while alive. Happily there may be seen occasionally, especially where amateurs of artistic taste and good knowledge of natural history have devoted themselves to the subject, examples enough to... 