Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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These etchings cover the whole period of Rembrandt's career, and illustrate the entire range of subjects used by the master--religious, allegorical, landscape, and portrait, in all of which there is a profound human interest. His mastery of technique is shown alike in such subjects as "Christ and His Disciples," etched with greatest abstraction, and the "Hundred Guilder Print," where details in the shadows have been worked out with extreme care. There are prints from his early period, executed entirely with the etching needle; others dating--from the middle of his career, when he used dry-point in connection...
...some military experience of exceptional interest. In later life, as a many-sided man of letters, his relations with writers in both England and America were extraordinarily close and varied. Few Americans of the nineteenth century touched American life at more points than Colonel Higginson. With portrait and other illustrations. Cloth. 8vo. Published at $4.00. Houghton, Mifflin Co. Special Price...
...prose and confess at once that "My Uncle Henry," with his "thin, pale face and faded blue eyes," his immaculately bald head and his "quick, fussy gestures," plays fast and loose not only with his nephew's affections, but with our own. There is, in Stoddard Colby's portrait of the strange codger, a touch of whimsical, wistful drollery that recalls the delicate nuances and half-tones of Lamb. We think of the reminiscent Charles and his "Poor Relations," and that is praise enough. Mr. Colby has achieved the unusual in penetrating through the outward and visible accidents...
...print room is found a series of important original drawings by old and modern masters. One of these is a portrait drawing, formerly known as the "Princess Hohenzollern," by Albrecht Durer, dated 1525. This portrait drawing, for the possession of which scores of museums and private collectors have been striving, is highly spoken of by Mr. Campbell Dodgson of the British Museum, and has been reproduced in Lippmann's work on Durer drawings. Significant also are the 16th Century drawings by Francois Clouet, and a set of four by Ingres and other leading draughtsmen of the 19th Century...
...short time ago in the House, a representative from Alabama made certain suggestions of ways to treat the labor question by meeting the laborers on their own ground, by giving them at least a fair representation in all disputes. Another member immediately arose, pointed to the portrait of Washington, pointed to the American flag, and then turning to the speaker, said: "Now look at the gentleman from Alabama!" By exalting the scions of Patriotism, he was accusing one who had suggested constructive reform measures, slightly radical though they may have been, of non-Americanism. And the House applauded...