The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 90
FROM OLD MEXICO. When the Camera was Unknown By Morris Wade The making of silhouettes can hardly beclassed among the lost arts, since there is solittle art about them. The best of them repre-sent the human profile in a crude way, andthey were regarded as rather a cheap kind ofpictures even m the… … SILHOUETTE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. it had its origin in a spirit of ridicule. It istaken from Etienne de Silhouette who was aFrench Cabinet Minister in the year 1759when the treasury of France was very lowbecause of costly wars with Britain and Prus-sia and by the extravagances of the govern-ment.…
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