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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 284

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servedspecimens of the childswork. They even hadsome of them displayedat an art exhibition, wherethey called forth noticeand comment from Mr.Clarence Cook. But perhaps the mostremarkable thing in thewhole exhibition, hewrote, are the framesthat contain the silhou-ettes in white paper, cutby Master… … own mind, not copied from other pictures,and they are done without any aid whateverfrom teaching; the work is the product ofinstinct without training. The subjects areall of life in action; whatever is done, isdone with a perfection that we never sawsurpassed. So far from seeming unduly puffed up…

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