"Japanning" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... japanned tea-trays and bellows. When he was able to rent a house, he made all the furniture with his own hands, and took a pride in having it very good, either solid mahogany or veneered. He saved money in the japanning business, and then on these savings undertook to teach himself painting. His earliest works were sold for anything they would fetch. Whilst I was in London he recognized one of them, a small picture that he immediately ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al |
