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Mr. Shuter, as the grave-digger, was chaste and comic, as he always is, and the scene-painters surpassed themselves.
Roundabout Papers 2006
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I had the means of getting an admission for myself and a friend to the pit by applying to one of the scene-painters attached to the theatre, with whom I had been well acquainted in past times.
The Woman in White 2003
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For you are to think of some Rossini or Bellini in the rear of it, too; to say nothing of the Stanfields, and hosts of scene-painters, machinists, engineers, enterprisers -- fit to have taken Gibraltar, written the History of England, or reduced Ireland into Industrial Regiments, had they so set their minds to it!
The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various
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Now that there are so many scene-painters who are artists -- and so many artists who are scene-painters -- in bringing Nature to the foot-lights the effect of gas on colours is of importance.
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists George Field
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Augier, he will send you to the celebrated scene-painters, to Cicéri or
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864 Various
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There were reams and reams of letters; there were scores and scores of contracts with managers, and actors, and actresses, and upholsterers, and scene-painters, and printers, and bill-posters, and Darco one organized mass of effort at the centre of all the business hurly-burly, doing three men's work, and tearing into fibre the nerves of all men who came near him.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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Landscape has taken refuge in the theatre; scene-painters alone understand its true character and can put it into practice with a happy result.
The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Cicely Margaret Powell [Editor] Binyon
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And the theatre, with all its actors and scene-painters and costumers and carpenters and musicians, is only an army on a different scale.
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It is the work of stage-carpenters and scene-painters and costumers, and you are quite certain that the curtain will descend presently and that you will have to put on your hat and go home.
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A room, which commonly was occupied by scene-painters, had accordingly been polished up as well as possible; our friends had hung it round with little decorations; and so decked and trimmed it, that it looked half like a garden, half like a colonnade.
Chapter XII. Book V 1917
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