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WE will leave to other journals the task of criticising the present Exhibition of works of Art at the Royal Academy, and without entering deeply into the question of grouping composition, solidity of painting, chiaroscuro, perspective, morbidezza of flesh treatment, or aerial effect, we will confine ourselves to a few remarks in a less ambitious key, on those pictures which portray animal life, Of this class there are several important examples devoted entirely to the representation of wild or domesticated animals, with others in which the lower forms of creation play but a slightly inferior part; and in these days when the public taste claims a far more conscientious treatment of the subject than in former times, we may be allowed, without being taxed with unfair criticism, to examine how far the respective artists have succeeded in fidelity of execution.
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Natural History at the Royal Academy . Nature 14, 105–107 (1876). https://doi.org/10.1038/014105a0
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