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Horace Harral
Horace Downey Harral (29 June 1817 – 23 January 1905) was a British wood-engraver, etcher and photographer. He was a pupil of John Orrin Smith and later joined him as a partner in an engraving firm. Harral produced prints of many Pre-Raphaelite paintings and also illustrated many British periodicals of the mid-Victorian era. He engraved Robert Howlett's photograph ''Isambard Kingdom Brunel Standing Before the Launching Chains of the Great Eastern'', one of the most famous and finest of the 19th century, for publication in the ''Illustrated Times'' in 1858. Harral also produced etchings and photographs. He is noted for an 1860s series of theatrically posed photographs of his friends. Harral once shared an office with William Luson Thomas and was later a significant shareholder in his company, which published ''The Graphic'' newspaper. Harral died a wealthy man and left the bulk of his estate to charity. Artistic career Horace Downey Harral was born in 1817 at Ipswich and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 – 27 November 8 BC), known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The rhetorician Quintilian regarded his ''Odes'' as just about the only Latin lyrics worth reading: "He can be lofty sometimes, yet he is also full of charm and grace, versatile in his figures, and felicitously daring in his choice of words."Quintilian 10.1.96. The only other lyrical poet Quintilian thought comparable with Horace was the now obscure poet/metrical theorist, Caesius Bassus (R. Tarrant, ''Ancient Receptions of Horace'', 280) Horace also crafted elegant hexameter verses (''Satires'' and ''Epistles'') and caustic iambic poetry ('' Epodes''). The hexameters are amusing yet serious works, friendly in tone, leading the ancient satirist Persius to comment: "as his friend laughs, Horace slyly puts his finger on his every fault; once let in, he plays about the heartstrings ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
