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Browere's life masks of great Americans (1899)

Hart, Charles Henry, 1847-1918 · [New York] Printed at the De Vinne press for Doubleday and McClure company · leaf 75

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Paulding,Williams and Van Wart, the three pure and unyieldingpatriots who captured the unfortunate Andre, and who, lean-ing only on their virtue and an honest sense of their duty, couldnot be tempted by gold. Thereby they saved Washingtonand his army from capture, and possibly preserved the… … HAD been familiar, for years, with the tragicstory told by Henry S. Randall, in his ponder-ous life of President Jefferson,1 of how the ven-erated sage of Monticello, within a year of hisdecease, was nearly suffocated, by an artist fromNew York, by name Browere, who had attempted to take amask of…

Browere, John Henri Isaac, 1792-1834 · Masks (Sculpture) · Sculpture, American

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