DOI chapter:
Chapter I Mrs. Patience Wright speaks the Prologue
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THE SPIRIT OF
tation alone,” so too Canova is “ani-
mated with ardent zeal to prove him-
self worthy of so great a subject.”
Thus happily are begun those stead-
fastly continued artistic relations be-
tween the United States and the two
European countries in which art pros-
pers as the light and livelihood of the
people.
Washington himself, when the Hou-
don portrait statue is projected, plays
an admirably discreet part in the art
criticism of the moment. He writes to
Jefferson, on August I, 1786:
“In answer to your obliging enquiries
respecting the dress, attitude, etc.,
which I would wish to have given to
the statue in question, I have only to
observe that, not having sufficient
knowledge in the art of sculpture to
oppose my judgment to the taste of
Connoisseurs, I do not desire to dic-
tate in the matter.”
Plow unlike the home life of William
I
MRS. PATIENCE WRIGHT
THE SPIRIT OF
tation alone,” so too Canova is “ani-
mated with ardent zeal to prove him-
self worthy of so great a subject.”
Thus happily are begun those stead-
fastly continued artistic relations be-
tween the United States and the two
European countries in which art pros-
pers as the light and livelihood of the
people.
Washington himself, when the Hou-
don portrait statue is projected, plays
an admirably discreet part in the art
criticism of the moment. He writes to
Jefferson, on August I, 1786:
“In answer to your obliging enquiries
respecting the dress, attitude, etc.,
which I would wish to have given to
the statue in question, I have only to
observe that, not having sufficient
knowledge in the art of sculpture to
oppose my judgment to the taste of
Connoisseurs, I do not desire to dic-
tate in the matter.”
Plow unlike the home life of William
I
MRS. PATIENCE WRIGHT