"We have seen a great many representations of Venetian skies, but never saw one before consisting of brown smoke with clots of ink in diagonal lines."
9.—FRUIT STALL.
"The historical or poetical associations of cities have little charm for Mr. Whistler and no place in his art."
10.—SAN GIORGIO.
"An artist of incomplete performance."
F. Wedmore.
11.—THE DYER.
"By having as little to do as possible with tone and light and shade, Mr. Whistler evades great difficulties."—P. G. Hamerton.
[23]"Calling me 'a Mr. Hamerton' does me no harm—but it is a breach of ordinary good manners in speaking of a well-known writer."
Yours obediently, P. G. Hamerton.
Sept. 29, 1880. To the Editor of the New York Tribune.
"All those theoretical principles of the art, of which we have heard so much from Messrs. Haden, Hamerton(?)[23] and Lalauze, are abandoned."