International studio (54.1914/1915)

Pen-and-ink Sketches of Rheims Cathedral



PEN-AND-INK SKETCHES OF
RHEIMS CATHEDRAL BY DE
WITT H. FESSENDEN
For centuries Rheims Cathedral has
stood for the best we possess in early Gothic art,
and at no time more than the present have men
and women of culture the world over expressed
the interest they feel in this wonderful structure
and anxiety lest the havoc produced by war should
baffle the restorer’s art. Certain it is that no
powers of restoration can ever bestow upon pos-
terity this priceless gift of inheritance in its pris-
tine glory. On this page and the next are repro-
duced some sketches of Rheims recently executed
by DeWitt H. Fessenden, a young artist whose pen-
and-ink work is one of many media in which he
expresses himself, but the one in which he most
excells.



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