The Spirit of American Sculpture
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: January 31, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780766195813
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Sculpture; Art & Art Instruction; Art; USA; American - General
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 !