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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 146

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artists workshop andcaught a glimpse of the bust of De Witt Clinton, he made a gesture, as of restraint, and pronounced these impromptu lines : Stay ! the bust that graces yonder shelf claims our regard.It is the front of Jove himself;The Majesty of Virtue and of Power,Before which guilt and… … vl .- - r r. Life Masks 71 De Witt Clinton, who was born in 1769 and died in 1828,was the first recognized practical politician of this country.Apart from his immense service in pushing to completion theErie canal, he was essentially a politician for what politicswould yield. Consequently, he was…

Browere, John Henri Isaac, 1792-1834 · Masks (Sculpture) · Sculpture, American · United States -- Biography Portraits

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