Word: rosas
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...entertainment concluded with "Pipkins's Rustic Retreat," in which Mr. Sargent had ample opportunity to do himself justice. As "Mr. Brittle Pipkins," the retired crockery merchant, he was all that could be desired of anybody, and several times during the play his acting was warmly applauded. As "Salvator Rosa Robinson" Mr. Lyon was excellent, and ably supported Mr. Sargent's impersonation of Pipkins. When telling the story of the mysterious murder, Mr. Lyon's oratorical powers were well displayed. "Shandy Gaff" received excellent treatment at the hands of Mr. Rusk, who looked his part perfectly and had no tendency...
...best. Nor have the four pictures by Zuberan (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4) more than an agreeable naturalistic richness of design and some peculiar though not refined merits of color; certainly there are none of the subtle qualities of the Velasquez head. Two landscapes by Salvator Rosa (Nos. 25 and 26) are interesting - especially when compared with the Turners in Mr. Norton's collection of last spring - as illustrating the truth of what Mr. Ruskin says of Salvator's morose fierceness of temper, nourished in the wild, melancholy Calabrian hills, and failing to see in them anything that...