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The artists of this period were under the necessity of attracting attention by novelty and variety; thus rhyparography, and the lower classes of art, attained the ascendency, and became the characteristic styles of the period.

—Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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Genre or still-life pictures, including all subjects of a trivial, coarse, or common kind: so called in contempt. Fairholt.

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If geography, why not rhyparography? — A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
"rhyparography" [253] of the seventeenth century. — A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
His style [426] is, I should suppose (for I think no foreigner has any business to do more than "suppose" in that matter), simply wretched; he has sentences as long as Milton's or Clarendon's or Mr. Ruskin's, not merely without the grandeur of the first, the beauty of the last, and the weighty sense of the second, but lacking any flash of graceful, pithy, or witty phrase; character of the model-theatre and cut-out paper kind; a mere accumulation of incidents instead of a plot; hardly an attempt at dialogue, and, where description is attempted at all, utter ineffectiveness or sheer rhyparography. [ — A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
The artists of this period were under the necessity of attracting attention by novelty and variety; thus rhyparography, and the lower classes of art, attained the ascendency, and became the characteristic styles of the period. — Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

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= French rhyparographie; from Latin rhyparographos, from Greek ῤυπαρογράφος, a painter of low or mean subjects, from ῤυπαρός, foul, dirty, mean, + γράφειν, write.

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