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"Dudley Gallery. Sixth General Exhibition of Drawings." The Art-Journal, 1 March 1870: 87.

These Dudley people are proverbially peculiar. Thus it would be hard to find anywhere talent associated with greater eccentricity than in the clever, yet abnormal, creations of Walter Crane, Robert Bateman, and Simeon Solomon... . The pictures of Simeon Solomon present like interesting problems, which whether problems in poetry, philosophy, or Art, remain, it must be confessed, after these attempted solutions or pictorial elucidations, painfully enigmatical and perplexed. Thus, ‘The Three Holy Children in the Fiery Furnace’ (45), are at once childish and sublime; pretty as small dolls, yet significant as prophecies. The artist rises to a higher sphere of thought in ‘The Sleepers, and One that keepeth Watch’ (625).

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