[On the school of Rubens]. On Art and Artists. William Blake. 1908. The Poetical Works

William Blake (1757–1827). The Poetical Works. 1908.

On Art and Artists

[On the school of Rubens]


XXV SWELLED limbs, with no outline that you can descry,
That stink in the nose of a stander-by;
But all the pulp-wash’d, painted, finish’d with labour,
Of an hundred journeymen’s—how-d’ye do neighbour?