The Spirit of American Sculpture
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: January 11, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781432608873
Subjects: Art / Sculpture; Sculpture; Art; Art & Art Instruction
First sentence: WHAT a pity that Thackeray, surveying our pre-Revolutionary American world in the interest of his Esmond and his Virginians, had not chanced to espy the valiant figure of our first American sculptor, Mrs. Patience Lovell Wright of New Jersey,-Quaker, wax-image-maker, traveler, keen Republican observer of the moods of British royalty and the movements of British troops !