Cook, Clarence, 1828-1900 · New York, S. Hess · leaf 74
, the son of an inn-keeper, and on account of thedelicacy of his health, received most of his teaching in country schools. When a lad he wasemployed as a designer of flowered-brocades for a Spitalfields silk-weaver. The editor of apopular magazine saw some of his designs, recognized his talent, and… … THE CANTERBURY PILGRIMS.FROM THE PICTURE BY STOThARD. trations made for the Poems and the- Italy of Samuel Rogers, the banker-poet. Turnermade the landscape-illustrations for these books, and Stothard the vignettes, and many ofthe head-and-tail pieces, and they are of extraordinary beauty; indeed a…
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