. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. on suggested the idea of laying out, on longpine tables, estates for the supposed proprietors of theseequipages. The houses and stables were laid out, as it were,on a ground plan merely, the apartments being divided, likepews in a church, by partitions, made of drawing paper, andfurnished with miniature articles of similar manufacture; andin this room, and with these puppets, adventures were drama-tically gone through, with great enthusiasm, in play hours,for nearly two years, when the system having arrived at wha
. A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. on suggested the idea of laying out, on longpine tables, estates for the supposed proprietors of theseequipages. The houses and stables were laid out, as it were,on a ground plan merely, the apartments being divided, likepews in a church, by partitions, made of drawing paper, andfurnished with miniature articles of similar manufacture; andin this room, and with these puppets, adventures were drama-tically gone through, with great enthusiasm, in play hours,for nearly two years, when the system having arrived at whatseemed the ne plus ultra,9 was abandoned for some newproject. I have often heard him attribute his first wish to atte nptsomething like sculpture to having constantly before his eyesa marble statue of Phocion, a copy of the antique, which myfather caused to be placed, with its pedestal, as an ornamentto a mound in the garden. His first attempts were made inchalk, on account of its whiteness and softness. He soon at-tempted alabaster, or rather rock plaster of paris (unburnt). HORATIO GREENOUGH 1805- 1852From a Daguerreotype From the collection of Mr. Horatio Greenough Curtii JUVENILE ATTEMPTS 217 with equal success; and within a few w,eeks of his first attempthe had been so assiduous as to transform his chamber to aregular museum, where rows of miniature busts, carved fromengravings, were ranged on little pine shelves. I recollect,in particular, a little chalk statue of William Penn, which hecopied from an engraving in the 6Portfolio, from the bronzestatue in Philadelphia. A gentleman who saw him copying,in chalk, the bust of John Adams by Binon, was so pleasedwith his success, that he carried him to the Athenaeum and pre-sented him to Mr. Shaw, I believe the first founder of theinstitution, and at that time the sole director. My brother wasthen about twelve years old, and of course was much edifiedby Mr. Shaws conversation, who assured him, as he held thechalk in his hand tha
Size: 1448px × 1726px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade19, booksubjectart, booksubjectartists
