Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1841-11-05
From The National MteTigeace
GrcGnOUgh's statue Of
Washington.

asaEas 8 SOGE.
In one Of our recent foreign journals
we find the following incidental notice
OF this colossal slalue. It is from the
! pen ol continental tourist. whose CON
munIcaions IN the journal are under
the title Of Modem Art and ArrIsls III
Italy, being portion OF continental
fragments The sale arrival OF the
statue must make this notice, though
very brief, acceptable:
Arrived at Florence, my ears rung
with the fame OF two American scuIp
tors, Greenougn aud Powers. knew
the Americans write beautiful poety,
and therefore | dd not see why they
should not be capable Of producing mar.
bic epicS; al all events, their advent was
sort Of He,IacaI rising IN llaIy, which
is at once the cradle and the tomb of the
arts; and as have strong PRESENT.
m nj that ancient america. 10 The myriad
century revolutions OF time, will one
daV be talked OF as we now talk Of an
cienl Rome, had great curiosity To SEQ
the hfSt iauhchIog oi heF children PIE
srnls 10 poSlerly; sui had my doubts,
tor heard mat Oolh these arlIsto cX-
ceIed 10 busts, and | take It. thai the
perpeluaiIngo OF human u9'lneSs, or even
human "eau'y' on canvass or Ia marble,
Is the utter des''ucion oi the ideal,
which IS the soul "r eNSenc" ol elther
art as II may w '''' VI 'cu P'o'' al"
P''"'''" ''H' "0'o'' ~, Tvs e"''u-
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"","'' !, "ou'u n"'e oeeo "e"' TO a nj
a''e II "0u ""' oe'" u's"PPo'"'e" !"
"tN .',''' ",ou'o' nS 'o' MS oo'''' '"e power
" 4" y "''"oS' VI .'"'"'e' Gu" no 'ur'ne'
S"' 0ut '"o'y "',''eo ""o' "'ie a. ways
So'"' !" Il" a''S' : S'oo'o- ne '0t"'
! hau heard murh' so much OF Green
ough' 3 COLOSSAL statue OF Washington,
tha' thoogh' II utterly impossible thai
1t could produce an effect upon me pro
por'lohed 10 lhe praises | had heard
bes owed upon IT, especially AS | re-
membered the almost Disgust with which
had looked at lhorwadSen's modern
s'a'ue- U.s. ne monerhly dressed
statue OF LORD Byron, and 10 say the
least OF IT. washington particularly
when magnlled, vas more unpoetIcal.
therefore more dilhcuII subject iu'
the manner IN whIrh brreD"ngh haSeX
ecu'ed MS almost imPoSSlO task, - on
~ another proc! that ge0lns can lniuSe
magic INTO lhe common"Sl and most
commonplace lhlngs, just as a man was
a mass OF lnanlmale clay "oi the earth
eorthy," TIL God breaih"d immortality
INT" hun and so loImed Inn alter his
own Image Nothing can be more hu-
man. and at the same lIme more godlIke,
than this. colossal statue OF Washington.
1t Is sort oI domestic Jnp'lnr-,he su
o'I'ne rePoSe ana sIhi P''c''y OF 'he "ho'e