American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . colors — studiesfrom the costumed model and scenes in the George Eliot country. So far, he has etchedbut one plate, called Old Comrades, and showing a man in the dress of an Incroyable,leaning against the arm of a chair, and carefully inspecting a large flint-lock pistol which heholds in his hand. Doubtless the weapon has done him good service, and is likely to becalled on again. The subject is an interesting one, well drawn and etched, and has beensuccessful, as it deserves to be. In taking a survey of Merrills work as a
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . colors — studiesfrom the costumed model and scenes in the George Eliot country. So far, he has etchedbut one plate, called Old Comrades, and showing a man in the dress of an Incroyable,leaning against the arm of a chair, and carefully inspecting a large flint-lock pistol which heholds in his hand. Doubtless the weapon has done him good service, and is likely to becalled on again. The subject is an interesting one, well drawn and etched, and has beensuccessful, as it deserves to be. In taking a survey of Merrills work as an illustrator, we find that, among his earliestimportant drawings, were some made for Pioneers in the Settlement of America, a largehistorical work to which many of his fellow artists contributed. Of Merrills designs for thisbook, an example is here given. The Massacre of the Huguenots at Fort Carolina, depictsthe ferocious assault of the Spaniards upon the French, whose fort on the St. Johns Riverin Florida, built in 1564, they surprised and captured the next THE MASSACRE OF THE HUGUENOTS. DRAWN BY F. T. MERRILL. AMERICAN ART 133 The fierce Menendez, who commanded the Spanish forces, boasted of his wholesale slaughter,and said he had murdered his victims not as Frenchmen, but as Lutherans. A day of vengeancecame however. Gourgues, a French soldier of distinction, fitted out three small vessels, in whichhe embarked for Florida with a hundred and fifty men, mostly Huguenots. Landing north of theSt. Johns River, he allied himself with some of the Indian tribes who had suffered from the oppres-sions of the Spaniards, and attacked the enemys forts. These being carried, and many of the Span-iards slain, he disposed of those who had survived the assault by hanging them to the same treeswhere they had hanged the French, and over them he placed a board inscribed, I have done thisnot as to Spaniards and Mariners, but as to Traitors, Robbers, and Murderers. ^mai
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