much mended” the painting. Ruskin's chief gripe concerned the coloring of the flesh.
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Please oblige me in two matters or you will make me ill again. Take all the pure green out of the flesh in the.” See also Doughty and Wahl,I send, and try to get it a little less like worsted-work by Wednesday, when I will send for it. I want the Archdeacon of Salop, who is coming for some practical talk over religious art for the multitude, to see it Nativity
Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism
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