What Our Artist Has to Put up with Before He Turns Like a Crushed Worm
George du Maurier
1892
Wood engraving
Punch (27 February 1892)
Our Art Critic (patronizingly).— “Ha– hum! Well, your Colour is fairly decent, and you have a niceish feeling for Light and Shade, and Chiaroscuro. But where you always fail to please, somehow, is in your Execution!”
Our Artist.— “My execution! Just so! I've no doubt that yours, now would be more generally popular!”
Image from Internet Archive. Text and formating by George P. Landow