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St. Nicholas (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · New York : Scribner · leaf 119

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urney makes this entry in her diary: We found Mrs. Siddons, the actress, there.She is a woman of excellent character, verycalm, modest, quiet, and unaffected. She has afine countenance, and her eyes look both intelli-gent and soft. In this picture, her hair is frizvJed and ])0w-dered after the… … NS AS THE TRAGI 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 downthe principle that the chief masses of light in apicture should…

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