American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 270
ell-known works. Margaret Fuller wrote an article uponthe collection, in the first number of the Dial, which was issued the next year, and an-ticipated the views of later critics by censuring the historical compositions, and awarding thepalm to the works of a less ambitious nature. She said of the… … Pen-drawing by Allston. called, not the mournfully indignant bard, but the robust and stately Jew, angry thatmen will not mark his word and go his way. The Miriam she characterized as inade-quate, and said that it failed to satisfy the highest requisitions; while The Witch of Endorhad no distinct…
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