"That all attempts to overstep the limits insisted upon such proportions are inartistic thoroughly, and tend to reveal the paucity of the means used, instead of concealing the same, as required by art in its refinement."
"That the huge plate, therefore, is an offence—its undertaking an unbecoming display of determination and ignorance—in accomplishment a triumph of unthinking earnestness and uncontrolled energy—both endowments of the 'duffer.'"
WAPPING, ON THE THAMES (ETCHING).
"That the custom of 'Remarque' emanates from the amateur and reflects his foolish facility beyond the border of his picture, thus testifying to his unscientific sense of its dignity."
"That it is odious."
"That, indeed, there should be no margin on the proof to receive such 'Remarque.'"
"That the habit of the margin, again, dates from the outsider, and continues with the collector in his unreasoning connoisseurship—taking curious pleasure in the quantity of the paper."
"That the picture ending where the frame begins, and in the case of etchings, the white mount, being inevitably, because of its colour, the frame, the picture thus extends itself irrelevantly through the margin of the mount."