American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 349
eation of suchsubjects Schenck is un-equalled. A diamond pool,embowered with trail-ing branches bent lowwith weight of foli-age and sweet-odoredflowers, is the retreatof a golden-hairednymph. Lying uponits margin in the joy-ous abandon of com-plete seclusion, sheplucks the dew-ladenopening buds,… … ^-w*—From the Original by George Clairin.Drawn by H. Chase. It is a dream of those far-off days when the forest wasPerchance if some fabled denizen of the wood were to en-croach upon her privacy, the nymph would take the form of a mild-eyed doe and with speedof the wind vanish from sight. In this…
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