Famous sculptors and sculpture
A survey of sculptors and their works written by Julia Ann Clark Shedd and published in Boston by Houghton, Mifflin in 1896, aimed at general American readers and art students. The plates are halftone photographs of single marble and bronze figures lit against black grounds \u2014 a draped bearded Greek, Joan of Arc in a laced gown, Michelangelo's seated Lorenzo, Donatello's St. George in his niche \u2014 useful for cut-out silhouettes, drapery studies, and high-contrast figure stock.
