_Books by the same Author.
'ARTISTS AND ARABS.'
'TRAVELLING IN SPAIN.'
'THE PYRENEES.'_
_Published by Sampson Low and Co.,
Crown Buildings, Fleet Street, London._
_Crown 8vo._, 10s. 6d.
ARTISTS AND ARABS;
OR,
Sketching in Sunshine.
"Let us sit down here quietly for one day and paint a camel's head, not
flinching from the work, but mastering the wonderful texture and
shagginess of his thick coat or mane, its massive beauty, and its
infinite gradations of colour.
"Such a sitter no portrait painter ever had in England. Feed him up
first, get a boy to keep the flies from him, and he will remain almost
immoveable through the day. He will put on a sad expression in the
morning which will not change; he will give no trouble whatever, he will
but sit still and croak."--Chap. IV., '_Our Models_.'
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS.
Opinions of the Press on "Artists and Arabs."
_'"Artists and Arabs" is a fanciful name for a clever book, of which the
figures are Oriental, and the sceneries Algerian. It is full of air and
light, and its style is laden, so to speak, with a sense of unutterable
freedom and enjoyment; a book which would remind us, not of the article
on Algeria in a gazetteer, but of Turner's picture of a sunrise on the
African coast.'_--Athenaeum.
_'The lesson which Mr. Blackburn sets himself to impress upon his
readers, is certainly in accordance with common sense.
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