daub

• About Boulanger's picture Theophile Gautier has a good deal to tell us in his article of 1837, published in the Beaux Arts de la Presse ; and it scarcely agrees with Balzac's condemnation of the portrait as a daub, when he saw the canvas some years later in Russia. —  Balzac
• The fact that the daub was created in an alcoholic stupor by an incompetent forger now doing life on Dartmoor is regarded as a mere quibble, because the words as written are actually true. —  The Tartan Sell - Jonathan Gash - Lovejoy 10
• Wattle and daub is the practice of weaving sticks into the shape of a wall and smearing said lattice with whatever one has about; in most cases, clay or mud with straw. —  The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper
• I purchased it of him for five pounds--I would not take five thousand for it; when you called that picture a daub, you did not see all the poetry of it We sat down to breakfast; my entertainer appeared to be in much better spirits than on the preceding day; I did not observe him touch once; ere breakfast was over a servant entered--"The Reverend Mr. Platitude, sir," said he A shade of dissatisfaction came over the countenance of my host. —  Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest
• Where he had picked up his phrases it was of course impossible to guess, but he talked a good deal of the dissipation of the grey matter of the brain, which resulted from his artistic occupation He had one awful daub which he called "The Guardship Attacked," in which was depicted a vessel, broadside on to the spectator, wedged very tightly into the sea and sky of an impossible blue, with little pills of white smoke clinging to a porthole here and there. —  Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile

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