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Amongst living men Whistler may be cited as an etcher of rare quality in one important respect, the management of lines, but his etchings owe much of strange charm which they possess to Chinese disdain of tonal values, and to wayward caprice, loving it here and scorning it there, which, being strictly personal, can only be of use as an example in one sense, that it shows how valuable in art is genuine personal feeling. Whistler is an admirably delicate draughtsman when he likes; there are passages in his etchings which are as striking in their way as feats of execution, as the most wonderful passages of Meyrion.
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Chinese disdain. I think that Whistler learned
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only in his later works. It came out strongly in compositions like
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The Balcony,
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Doorway, and
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Palace and obtained full mastery in his
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Dutch series, above all the fascinating
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Amsterdam Canal