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Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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put an end toher sufferings. The Indians buried the corpse, and had the grace to show the mourningmother the little grave. After enduring many hardships, especially from insufficient food, andmuch ill treatment from her brutal masters, and being separated from her fellow-captives,among whom was her daughter, Mrs. Rowlandson was at last ransomed from the Indians forthe sum of twenty pounds, having been in captivity for nearly three months, and restored toher husband and friends, her children being redeemed afterwards. Admirable, also, are Darleys drawings of those foes and supplanters of the red man, — thepioneer and the guide, the hunter and the trapper. Some of the best of these were engravedon steel for the early volumes of Appletons Journal, and a number were drawn for Pioneersin the Settlement of America. What may be called his pictures of labor — many of them butsmall vignettes for banknotes, yet most excellent — represent the farmer, the lumberman, the 1111/ i , ml iBiiiii
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5?O o C5 Ph £ t—1 >-< ffi w w ft < ;5 fc <) P3 R P k-1 O O AMERICAN ART 395 miner and the mechanic. To these are applicable the words which Whittier uses in speakingof his own Songs of Labor : — Haply from them the toiler, bentAbove his forge or plough, may gainA manlier spirit of content,And feel that life is wisest spentWhere the strong working hand makes strong the working brain. Nor should be forgotten Darleysadmirable characterizations of suchtypes as the revivalist, the Fourthof July orator, the quack doctor,and many another, or his faithfulrendering of animals. He pro-duced a number of works drawnfrom our civil war, several ofwhich have been widely spreadin large engravings and photo-graphs. These include On theMarch to the Sea; Foraging inVirginia; Giving Comfort to theEnemy ; Going to the War; Sheri-dan checking the Retreat nearWinchester; and Dahlgrens Cav-alry Charge at Fredericksburg.The last named represented Dar-ley at the Paris Exposition of1867. His la

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