American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . Recollections of the Arabian Nights PHOTO-ETCHING FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING W. St. John harper. One does not need to be familiar with the Arabian Nights to see in this drawing the beautiesthat a great English poet has pictured in the well-known poem, Recollections of the ArabianNights. If one could in his dreams be borne Adown the TigrisBy Bagdats shrines of fretted gold, such a scene as this would undoubtedly present itself in The Great Pavilion of the Caliphat : — The fourscore windows all alightAs with the quintessence
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . Recollections of the Arabian Nights PHOTO-ETCHING FROM AN ORIGINAL DRAWING W. St. John harper. One does not need to be familiar with the Arabian Nights to see in this drawing the beautiesthat a great English poet has pictured in the well-known poem, Recollections of the ArabianNights. If one could in his dreams be borne Adown the TigrisBy Bagdats shrines of fretted gold, such a scene as this would undoubtedly present itself in The Great Pavilion of the Caliphat : — The fourscore windows all alightAs with the quintessence of flame,A million tapers flaring brightFrom twisted silvers lookd to shameThe hollow-vaulted dark, and streamdUpon the mooned domes aloofIn inmost Bagdat, till there seemdHundreds of crescents on the roof Of night new-risen, that marvellous time To celebrate the golden primeOf good Haroun Drawn cy Walter Shirlaw. — Engraved by William Miller. WALTER SHIRLAW. Chapter Fourth. SHREWD, far-sighted, and admirable man and artist, is theconclusion that one arrives at after studying Shirlaw andhis works; — graciously firm, courageous without bravado,independent with a purpose, self-reliant, and prudent. Inno sense an American, for he was born in Scotland andreceived his art education in Munich, he is yet regarded asthe best trained and generally equipped American painterand illustrator. Born in Paisley, he came to New Yorkwhen he was three years of age. His great-grandfather onhis mothers side was an art antiquarian of unusual charac-ter, and his father was an inventor and maker of finepattern looms for weaving shawls and other decorativework. His mother, besides being an excellent housekeeper,had a great love for decoration with positive colors, and anunusual constructive skill and taste. The boy Shirlaw wasencouraged in his earliest art attempts. He preferred pic-tures t
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