...stream of consciousness which contains some of his finest writing - he was to observe fatefully, 'I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.' Whistler sued. The trial was heard by Sir John Huddleston, famous for 'the tiniest feet, the best kept...

...in a small art journal, Ruskin said of the Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, "I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before...guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face."10 These lines reflect not only the expanding gulf between the Victorian aesthetics of realism...

...the 1ll-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of willful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before...hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the publics face.' 10 Daily Telegraph, 1 88 1 . " James McNeill Whistler, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies....

...ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected...guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face."425 Whistler responded to Ruskin's words by suing him for libel and demanding damages of £1000....

...as extraordinarily beautiful, the art critic John Ruskin, an arbiter of Victorian taste, wrote, “I never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.” Whistler sued him for libel. In the case, when it was put to Whistler: “For two days' labour you...

...initiate a libel trial in 1877 against critic John Ruskin, who had described him as a 'coxcomb' asking two hundred guineas for 'flinging a pot of paint in the public's face'. Whistler's charge was upheld by the English court, but a mean judgment awarded him one farthing's damages...

...conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of willful imposture." He then went on, "I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before...hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the publics face."3 Ruskin, the leading art critic of the period in England, was an advocate of the Pre-Raphaelite...

...installment of Fors Clavigera heaped scorn on the "ill-educated conceit" of a "coxcomb" who dared to "ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." The American expatriate thereupon sued Ruskin for libel. Ruskin at first saw the lawsuit as an opportunity...

...wrote the following about Whistler's canvas Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket: "I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face." Whistler sued Ruskin for this remark and won, but since the damages he was granted were negligible...

...Letters to the Workmen and Laborers of Great Britain — which features such statements as "I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before...for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face" — provoked a libel suit from Whistler. 8 The quoted phrase appears often in Blake's writing, but...