American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 267
fers from most representations of this subject indepicting heaven as unmeasurable flights of steps, with platform above platform, rising andextending into space immeasurable, and shows a vast multitude of angels. The BelshazzarsFeast, that colossal rock of offence, was sketched out sometime before… … Pen-drawing by Allston. miss much of the stimulating environment which he found in Europe. But the paintersdecision was made, and taking an affectionate leave of hfs many friends, he sailed for Bostonon the good ship Galen in 1818, arriving home in the October of that year. He had astormy passage,…
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