Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 343
e cab of the new locomotive and carry usas swiftly and safely as he did on oldThirty-eight-seven-six. Vol. XXXIV.-42. When the Camera was Unknown By Morris Wade The making of silhouettes can hardly beclassed among the lost arts, since there is solittle art about them. The best of them repre-sent… … SILHOUETTE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON. it had its origin in a spirit of ridicule. It istaken from Etienne de Silhouette who was aFrench Cabinet Minister in the year 1759when the treasury of France was very lowbecause of costly wars with Britain and Prus-sia and by the extravagances of the govern-ment.…
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