. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. e the friendof Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, taking his place in the cultured foreignlife of the city. Hawthornes u Italian Notes arefull of kindly references to the sculptor, while apostrophized his statue in a few fervid liiu Public sympathy in the cont
. The art treasures of Washington : an account of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and of the National Gallery and Museum, with descriptions and criticisms of their contents; including, also, an account of the works of art in the Capitol, and in the Library of Congress, and of the most important statuary in the city. e the friendof Nathaniel Hawthorne and Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, taking his place in the cultured foreignlife of the city. Hawthornes u Italian Notes arefull of kindly references to the sculptor, while apostrophized his statue in a few fervid liiu Public sympathy in the contemporary struggle of G for independence was the all important factor in the immediate SUCCeSS of the TireekSlave/1 which was received by an emotionally sym-pathetic public as symbolic of the oppressed coun-try from which it took its name. Its fame precededits exhibition at the great international expositionof London, in 1851, where its success was over-whelming, and where it was regarded by the Brit-ishers a^ the ne work of art by an American cred-itable to the country. Two years later, it wasagain the centre Of interest at the first Worlds Fair, in New York, and was enthusiastically be-lieved to be the most remarkable work of art known to history. Some six or eight copies Of the figure came from. GREEK SL WE»v Hi ram Powers Casts and tbc (Brccft Slave lot Powers1 studio: tin- first was sold to Captain (Iranifor $4,000, and is now m the possession of theDuke of Cleveland, The second is the replicaowned by the Corcoran Gallery. It was brought to this country in [847, The third copy belongs to the Earl of Dudley, while the fourth, purchasedlw Prince Demidoft for $4,000, was sold at that noblemans death for $11,000 to A. T. Stewart of New York. CHAPTER XIII THE SAINT MEMIN COLLECTION Amongst the treasures of the Corcoran Galleryis preserved one of the two original collections ofengraved portraits by Saint Memin, presented tothe institution by W. \V. Corcoran. The collection numbe
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