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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 Co. · leaf 72

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bust andstatue for his contemplated National Gallery. Given undermy hand at Monticello, in Virginia, this i 5th day of October,1825. Th : Jefferson. Four days later President Madison, who, with his wife, wasBroweres next subject, writes: A bust of Mr. Jefferson,takenby Mr. Browere from the person… … Life Masks 41 days after the taking of the mould he wrote to Madison: Iwas taken in by Mr. Browere. He said his operation wouldbe of about twenty minutes and less unpleasant than Houdonsmethod. I submitted without enquiry. But it was a boldexperiment, on his part, on the health of an octogenary…

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

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