. American homes and gardens. CURIOUS revival seems to be taking placein shadowgraphy—that long-neglected artwhich was so fashionable in mid-Victoriandays—and silhouettes and profilists (assome prefer to be called) are springing upeverywhere. Doubtless many of these pres- ent-day artists are clever and orig-inal, but somehow their shadow-work seems to lack the charm andwistfulness of the older , not all the silhouettes of by-gone days are things of beauty—some, if the truth be told, beingmore than a trifle crude—but eventhe least artistic possess a rarecharm from associations and t
. American homes and gardens. CURIOUS revival seems to be taking placein shadowgraphy—that long-neglected artwhich was so fashionable in mid-Victoriandays—and silhouettes and profilists (assome prefer to be called) are springing upeverywhere. Doubtless many of these pres- ent-day artists are clever and orig-inal, but somehow their shadow-work seems to lack the charm andwistfulness of the older , not all the silhouettes of by-gone days are things of beauty—some, if the truth be told, beingmore than a trifle crude—but eventhe least artistic possess a rarecharm from associations and thereflection that the originals havethemselves passed into shadow-land. For many years now I have col-lected silhouettes and the doing sohas given me an infinite amount ofpleasure. There is no member ofmy shadow family—and they num-ber many hundreds—that I do notseem to know personally in an al-together familiar and delightfulway and about whom I have not,at some time or other, woven a ro-mantic history. That, ind
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