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Portraits in Plaster
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Portraits in Plaster
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Portraits in Plaster
EDWIN BOOTH DANTE TORQUATO TASSO SHAKSPERE—Stratford Bust SHAKSPERE—Kesselstadt Mask DAVID GARRICK EDMUND KEAN JOHN M'CULLOUGH DION BOUCICAULT LAWRENCE BARRETT HENRY EDWARDS EDWIN BOOTH MRS. SIDDONS LOUISE OF PRUSSIA MARIA F. MALIBRAN FREDERICK SCHILLER LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN—From Life LUDWIG VON BEETHOVEN—From Death FELIX MENDELSSOHN G. R. MIRABEAU JEAN PAUL MARAT MAXIMILIAN ROBESPIERRE SIR ISAAC NEWTON BEN. CAUNT WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY THOMAS CHALMERS SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE viWILLIAM WORDSWORTH JOHN KEATS SAMUEL JOHNSON BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON JEREMY BENTHAM DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI COUNT CAVOUR PIUS IX GIACOMO LEOPARDI JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE J. M. W. TURNER HIRAM...
Portraits in Plaster, from the Collection of Laurence Hutton (Classic Reprint)
Excerpt from Portraits in Plaster, From the Collection of Laurence Hutton The story of the beginning of my collection of masks is curious and perhaps interesting. The half -dozen casts upon which it is based were found, early in the Sixties, in a dust-bin in one of the old-fashioned streets which run towards the East River, in the neighborhood of Tompkins Square, New York. Their owner had lately died; his unsympathetic and unap preciative heirs had thrown away what they considered the horrible things a small boy had found them, and offered them for sale to a dealer in phrenological casts, who realized their worth, although, in many cases, he did not know whose heads they represented; and so,...
Talks in a Library With Laurence Hutton
Excerpt from Talks in a Library With Laurence Hutton: Recorded by Isabel Moore The writer of this note was one of those who from time to time enjoyed the privilege of sitting in the library of Laurence Hutton, and of hearing from the lips of his genial host (a man with a genius for friendship and for attracting friends) informal talk concerning the friends with whom Hutton had been associated during a life that, while all too brief, was certainly fall and that in many ways, and particularly in this matter of personal relation, was assuredly fortunate. As we moved about between the fascinating collections of the well-furnished shelves and walls of the library in the Princeton country home, on...
