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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 153

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ed. She has a for thirty years. fine countenance, and her eyes look both intelli- We can compare two aspects of her person- gent and soft.ality in these pictures. Sir Joshuas exhibits her In this picture, her hair is frizzled and pow- in an attitude of rapt contemplation, as if gaz- dered after the… … MKS. SIDDONS AS THE TRAGIC MUSE, BY REYNOLDS. (PHOTOGRAPH BY VALENTINE, LONDON.) brown muff. The curtain at her back is red.On this arrangement of colors hangs a story. Sir Joshua, in the eighth of the discourseswhich, as president of the Royal Academy, hedelivered to the students in 1778, laid…

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