Lytton Strachey Quote

Francis Bacon has been described more than once with the crude vigour of antithesis…He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk.


Elizabeth and Essex (1928) ch. 5


Francis Bacon has been described more than once with the crude vigour of antithesis…He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk.

Francis Bacon has been described more than once with the crude vigour of antithesis…He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk.

Francis Bacon has been described more than once with the crude vigour of antithesis…He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk.

Francis Bacon has been described more than once with the crude vigour of antithesis…He was no striped frieze; he was shot silk.