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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Life and Works of Jean Antoine Houdon: The Sculptor of Voltaire and of Washington Chapter I (1741-1769) Birth and student days in Rome. Statues of Saint Bruno and of John the Baptist. The Ecorche. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state...

Excerpt from Edward Savage Painter and Engraver: And His Unfinished Copper-PlateAt the meeting of this Society held in November of 1859, there was presented, from Samuel T. Snow, a copper-plate engraving of the Declaration of Independence by an unknown artist, together with the 00pper-plate its-elf. 1 The plate was done in the stipple manner and was unfinished. After a few impressions were struck off, it was placed in the repository of the Soc...

Excerpt from Mary White Mrs. Robert Morris: An Address Delivered After the alliance with France, this country was visited by many Frenchmen of distinction, diplomats, officers, and citi zens, and all of them brought letters of introduction to Mr. Morris, who was esteemed the representative man of the city. From many of these foreigners we have published accounts of their travels, and from them gain vivid pictures of society in Philadelphia an...

Excerpt from Catalogue of the Engraved Work of Asher B. Durand Exhibited at the Grolier Club, April MDCCCXCV Pilgrim's Progress. The pupil soon outstripped the master, and when his apprenticeship ended, in 1817, he became his master's partner. During the three years of the partnership all the important work of the firm was done by the junior partner, and several specimens of Mr. Durand's engraving at this period, as also of his apprentice wor...

Excerpt from Robert Lettis Hooper: Deputy Quarter-Master General in the Continental Army and Vice-President of New JerseyLetters from William Franklin to William Strahan, penna. Mag. Or hist. And biog., Vol. Xxxv, p. 450.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-ar...

Excerpt from Portraits of Patrick HenryI knew Mr. William Wirt Henry personally. He was one of the orators at the centennial celebration held in Independence Hall on July 2, 1876, in commemoration of the introduction into Congress of the Resolutions respecting Independancy, when a congress of authors convened, each one bringing a biographical sketch of a revolutionary worthy, and as the sequel will show the history he gave shortly priorto this...

Excerpt from A Register of Portraits Painted by Thomas Sully Arranged and Edited: With an Introduction and Notes When a mere lad, just entering my teens, I became pos sessed with the desire to have the autographs of distinguished artists, and with that end in view addressed letters to Rem brandt Peale, Asher Brown Durand, S. F. B. Morse, better known as the inventor of the electric telegraph than as an artist, Thomas Sully, and others, to sec...

Excerpt from Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved and Other Portraits of Lincoln: Exhibited at the Grolier Club, New York Saturday, April 8th, to Saturday, April 22d, 1899While these structural particulars are of value and have been utilized by Mr. St. Gaudens in the most masterly statue yet erected in America, alone they would give no idea of how Abraham Lincoln appeared, in the ¿esh, to those who knew him. And indeed no word-painting can co...

Excerpt from Browere's Life Masks of Great Americans Three hundred and forty-seven copies of this book were printed by the De Vinne Press in the month of March, after which the types were distributed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology t...

Excerpt from Necrological Notice: Of the Richard Stockton of Princeton, New Jersey, Read Before the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Regular Monthly Meeting, Thursday Evening, October 6, 1870 At the meeting next following the demise of our late Honorary Vice-President for the State of New Jersey, Richard Stockton Field, LL. D., I presented for your consideration some resolutions of respect to his memory, and I will now ask ...

Excerpt from Bibliographia Lincolniana: An Account of the Publications Occasioned by the Death of Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President of the United States of America, Being a Bibliographical Catalogue of All Sermons, Eulogies, Orations, Etc, , Delivered at the Time, With Notes and an Introducti Five years ago the nation was called upon to give its utterance upon the fiendish crime committed at its national capital, on the person of its chief...