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Proem
List of Plates
LIFE MASKS
I The Plastic Art
II The Plastic Art in America
III John Henri Isaac Browere
IV The Captors of André
V Discovery of the Life Mask of Jefferson
VI Three Generations of Adamses
Language
en
Duration
~2 hours (161K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2016-04-29
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
1847–1918
A Philadelphia lawyer turned art historian, he built a second career writing lively, carefully researched books on American artists and historical figures. His work helped early readers and collectors take American portraiture and biography more seriously.
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