...as to the even partial adoption of them. Hogarth, the incarnation of our national taste in painting, saw in those spiritualised cherubim which usually...traced by the pen, are here in accurate unison. Alas I how hopelessly blinded the writer's mental vision. As directly opposed to such grovelling views,...

...saw in the spiritualized cherubim, that appear so frequently in the earlier specimens of Italian art, only " an infant's head, with a pair of duck's wings...supposed always to be flying about and singing psalms." Our readers will remember the fable that is told of Saint Cecilia's interview with some of these heavenly...

...and seraphim, so grandly and beautifully rendered and with such holy meaning by the great masters, only " an infant's head with a pair of duck's wings under its chin, supposed to be always flving about and singing psalms," and in one of his plates, " Enthusiasms Delineated."...

...described by Hogarth as ' An infant's head of about two years old, with a pair of duck's wings placed under its chin, supposed always to be flying about and singing psalms ; ' one of these has a man's face, bewigged and grimacing. Pen and ink ; 5} x 4J in. The child's figure...

...extraordinary of all, which is an infant's head of about two years old, with a pair of duck's wings placed under its chin, supposed always to be flying about, and singing psalms, figure 7, plate 8. A painter's representation of heaven would be nothing without swarms of these little...

...as to the even partial adoption of them. Hogarth, the incarnation of our national taste in painting, saw in those spiritualised cherubim which usually...supposed always to be flying about and singing psalms." 1 The form conveyed by the eye, and the description of it traced by the pen, are here in accurate unison....