The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-01-03
STATUE TO JOHN C. CALHOUN.
Complete Description of this Work of Art.

complete description oil TINS WORK OIL Art
The European correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun, writing from Rome, un
der date of December /, says:
To-day spent an agreeable half hour
of Philadelphia. found him mounted
fully working out the details Of the CO.
This model is in "moulder's clay" and
is fifteen feet high and on studio dais
of some twenty moro feet high. Thus
Mr.. Harnisch, away up aloft, looked
like the little cherub old Dibden used to
eing about in naval vocalisms Of old.
mention this fact of Mr. Harnisch's
personal work on every detail, for in
many cases the artist only imparts those
inspired little touches which are mystic.
riously called "6nishers," leaving the
bulk of the work to the "siudio ghost"
This conscientiousness of the young
Philadelphia in his art work is highly
creditablo alike to himself and his mas.
terly productions. This statue model OF
the great Calhoun is, indeed, animated
| clay. can remember seeing Calhoun
| when was in the spring and he in the
winter of life. Indeed, 1 eat opposite
him at the dinner table for ma " day,
when the boarding house Of Mis-. Wash
ington, on + street, in the "city of mag
| ni'cent distances," was tire home OF many
"men of the time"
In this colossal model l again see the
great "nulliier." He is here, perhaps,
made to appear rather in the mid sum
| mer than in the winter of life. The
prime Of age ia the happy mean for the
artist. There is none of that shaggy
long hair thrown back fi.fully; none of
that lion.like crouching that marked the
declining days Of the hero Of the Pal.
metto forest. He now stands erect in
that pose which gave him the greatest
prominence in the United States Senate
aud caused every eye and every ear to be
directed to the Southern orator.
His head erect and we'll posed, on a
1.-the, nervous yet firm frame; his deep.
set, stern eyes, beneath massive brow !;
his pulsating nostrils and his compressed.
rigid lips, with the well.defncd lines Of
the cheek and chin of the oratorical
type, are all before you in this model.
The nervous right hand and arm are
half extended the former being one of
those "great yet not large hands that
speak," and which Sir Arthur Helps has
go we'll described 10 his charming book
Of Friends in Council" The left foot
is advanced, and gives to the figure that
light iivingness Of senatorial grace" az
Cicero would say.
Indian like, John G. Calhoun inclined
TO walk somewhat with his toes inwards
than outwards. Southern people all over
the world do 80, in contradis.inction to
Northern people. l assume the dolce
far niente of Southern life superiD iuces
this, and remember Daniel Webster to
have said that Commercial men, me-
chanics, tailors and dancing masters toed
outwards." Our notions Of physical de-
pertinent do not comport with this idea
nowadays. l think I have read Of St.
Paul being in-toed, and also that Cicero
was like zone who had trod the Indians
path" This pose in the Calhoun model
of Mr.. Haruisch is agreeable to the eye,
and adds to the motion of speaking to
the Senator'S" which is the idea conveyed
by this art.work Of the real and the beau
ideal Senator. Standing in front Of his
senatorial chair, on which is flung the
cloak he was wont to wear, you have be.
fore Tou the great formulator of "State's
sovereignty" in all his earnest, breathing,
life.like character. $te
This figure will be cast in bronze after
the Roman style, which is much better
than that of the Munich mode. 1t will
then be placed on q granite rostra, which
of bronze, half inlaid, aud making the
duced by facade pillars.
ed life size figures representing "Truth"
in the front, "Justice" by one side, "His.:
tory" by the otiier, aud iu the rear the
great argument cf Calhoun, the "Consti-
tuition"
Approaching this and the groud are
four large granite steps that form an en-.
circling main bsse 70 the whole monu-
ment. This monument will make an i'm
pressive and imposing testimonial in
Charleston, and will, altogether, be fully
forty.five feet high. AS work of art it
will be unique, not only in its vitality of
the chief figure and the repose of the
secondary figures, but in the ornate and
appropriate ensemble.
Mr.. Harnisch can afford to rest bis re.
putation on this work, and South Carroll.
ma can equally afford to be proud Of the
good taste 10 the selection of this artist
for this work. It would be premature to
say just now when South Carolina may
expect to wolcome this enduring tribute
of bronze and granite to one who was,
jdciie princeps, the true metal of manly
craftsmanship and the true rock ef nurs
patriotism.
Permit me to briefly speak of the i'm
preston work of art Of this kind con-
veys. Like true literary composition
Of contemporary persons and manners,
there is no free play of idealism or the
iarced whims of imagination in this work.
It is simply true and truly simple. The
spirit of Calhoun comes up before you as
well as the outer man. You breathe
Southern rights" and you feel the cav
alier Carolinian and you realize what
Taine describes when he says language,
legislation, O relation is never more
than an abstract thing. The complete
thing is the man who acts, the man, cor.
poral and visible, who ep;s, walks, fights.
iabors. Leave on one side the !hee-y
i ana tne mechanism of constitutions, re-
ligion and their systems, aud Try to see
men in their senates, in their work shops,
in their offices in their fislds, with the
sky and earth, their houses, their dreas,
cultivation, meals, as you do when, land
ing in England, or in Italy, you remark
faces and motions, roads and inns, q Cit
izen taking his walk, q woman drinking.
Our great care should be to supply, as
much as possible, in memorial or tribute.
art of to-day, Or contemporary conse.s ;;ssoo:sTy individual
literature, the want of the present, per.
sonai, direct and sensible observation
which we can no longer practice, for it is
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