Charles Sumner: “As in music a simple heart-melody is often more effective than any triumph over difficulties or bravura of manner, so in…”

“As in music a simple heart-melody is often more effective than any triumph over difficulties or bravura of manner, so in engraving, the sense of the beautiful may prevail over all else; and this is the case with the Pomponne, although there are portraits by others showing higher art.”