American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 193
ccordingly, he repeated the subject once more, andthis time on a large scale, nine feet by six, in which picture I adopted, in some measure,he says, the action of the Dying Gladiator for that of my Spanish hero. Sir Thomas Law-rence did me the favor to act as model for the head of my dying… … A DARING ACT. PHOTO-ETCHING FROM AN ORIGINAL PAINTING Frank T. Merrill. This picture illustrates an episode which occurred during a celebrated naval engagement of theWar of 1812. The Lawrence, — Commodore Perrys flagship — being an excellent sailer, had encounteredthe enemy before the other vessels…
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