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    The Best Portraits in Engraving
    The Best Portraits in Engraving
    The Best Portraits in Engraving
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    The Best Portraits in Engraving

    By Charles Sumner

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    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Best Portraits in Engraving - Charles Sumner

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      Title: The Best Portraits in Engraving

      Author: Charles Sumner

      Release Date: September 11, 2007 [EBook #22574]

      Language: English

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      THE

      BEST PORTRAITS

      IN

      ENGRAVING.

      BY

      CHARLES SUMNER.

      Fifth Edition.

      FREDERICK KEPPEL & CO.

      NEW YORK,

      20 EAST 16th STREET.

      LONDON, PARIS,

      3 DUKE STREET, ADELPHI. 27 QUAI DE L'HORLOGE.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1875, by

      FREDERICK KEPPEL,

      In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.

      THE BEST PORTRAITS IN ENGRAVING.

      Engraving is one of the fine arts, and in this beautiful family has been the especial handmaiden of painting. Another sister is now coming forward to join this service, lending to it the charm of color. If, in our day, the chromo can do more than engraving, it cannot impair the value of the early masters. With them there is no rivalry or competition. Historically, as well as æsthetically, they will be masters always.

      Everybody knows something of engraving, as of printing, with which it was associated in origin. School-books, illustrated papers, and shop windows are the ordinary opportunities open to all. But while creating a transient interest, or, perhaps, quickening the taste, they furnish little with regard to the art itself, especially in other days. And yet, looking at an engraving, like looking at a book, may be the beginning of a new pleasure and a new study.

      Each person has his own story. Mine is simple. Suffering from continued prostration, disabling me from the ordinary activities of life, I turned to engravings for employment and pastime. With the invaluable assistance of that devoted connoisseur, the late Dr. Thies, I went through the Gray collection at Cambridge, enjoying it like a picture-gallery. Other collections in our country were examined also. Then, in Paris, while undergoing severe medical treatment, my daily medicine for weeks was the vast cabinet of engravings, then called Imperial, now National, counted by the million, where was everything to please or instruct. Thinking of those kindly portfolios, I make this record of gratitude, as to benefactors. Perhaps some other invalid, seeking occupation without burden, may find in them the solace that I did. Happily, it is not necessary to visit Paris for the purpose. Other collections, on a smaller scale, will furnish the same remedy.

      In any considerable collection, portraits occupy an important place. Their multitude may be inferred when I mention that, in one series of portfolios, in the Paris cabinet, I counted no less than forty-seven portraits of Franklin and forty-three of Lafayette, with an equal number of Washington, while all the early Presidents were numerously represented. But, in this large company, there are very few possessing artistic value. The great portraits of modern times constitute a very short

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