Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valuable addition to the collection came in 1879 when the librarian discovered a package behind a board in old Gore Hall which contained the hand-drawn plans of British Revolutionary fortifications. Included is "A sketch of the Battle of Germantown 4th October 1777 where the rebels were repulsed." A short time later the red coated cartographer hid his maps and retreated...
...knowing what to be a genius about. A tavern brawl gave him his cue. A Sunday drinker clobbered another over the scalp with a quartern tankard. In 18th century terms it was a "laughable subject," what with the man all bloody and grimacing with pain. Hogarth made a sketch that delighted his fellow apprentices, and thus he found his life work. He could do this stuff on copper, and copperplate prints of current events were the picture magazines...
...austere Times, which errs in the other direction by making all news sound like History, was not being excessively stuffy. The abysmal depths are opening even wider. Last week the tabloid Daily Sketch's, circulation topped the 1,000,000 mark, a sensational rise of nearly 400,000 readers in little more than two years, based wholly on the paper's new diet of cheesecake, sex, crime and alarm-ringing political coverage. Last week Fleet Streeters also got the announcement of a new daily, the Sun. Said the Sun's prospectus, leaving no doubt as to what...
...still two classes: the educated and the uneducated. The educated present Britain's face to the world as a nation of people who are readers of the Times, Telegraph and Guardian. The uneducated present no face to the world because their faces are buried in the Mirror, Sketch, Herald, and all the other popular papers...
...they succeeded in communicating their awe to contemporaries, did much better financially than American abstractionists do today. In 1858, the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad dispatched Asher Durand and some of his colleagues in an excursion train, which stopped when any of the artists expressed a desire to sketch the view from the windows. The 600-odd canvases in John Kensett's studio brought $137,715 at auction after his death...