Samuel F.B. Morse: his letters and journals. Edited and supplemented by his son Edward Lind Morse; illustrated with reporductions of his paintings and with notes and diagrams bearing on the invention of the telegraph (1914)
Morse, Samuel Finley Breese, 1791-1872, Morse, Edward Lind, 1857- · Boston Houghton Mifflin · leaf 140
rks of very high merit byartists with whose performances, and even with whosenames, we were hitherto unacquainted. At the head ofthis class are Messrs. Monroe and Morse. The prizeof history may be contended for by Mr. Northcote andMr. Stothard. We should award it to the former. Afterthese gentlemen… … THE DYING HERCULESPainted by Morse in 1813 THE DYING HERCULES 107 critic places the Dying Hercules among the firsttwelve. On June 13, 1813, Morse thus writes to his parents: — I send by this opportunity (Mr. Elisha Goddard) thelittle cast of the Hercules which obtained the prize thisyear at the…
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