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Identifier: worldscolumbiane02whit (find matches)
Title: The World's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: White, Trumbull, 1868-1941 Igleheart, William, (from old catalog) joint author
Subjects: World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publisher: Philadelphia and St. Louis, P.W. Ziegler & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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Is that theEmperor permitted a display of works never seen out of his FINE ARTS. 363 country before. In delicacy, coloring and novelty these works are unexcelled and attract constant interest. Brazil displays about one hundred and fifty paintings and a number of pieces ofstatuary. Among thelatter is The Christof Branado. In the Americansection the display ofpaintings, statuary,drawings, etc., is be-wildering in its richesand the immensenumber of subjectsshown, Americanartists from Paris,Rome, and other citiesof Europe, and fromevery part of theUnited States, arefully represented, andit is thus renderedextremely difficult toselect from the innu-merable canvases, allexcellent in theirlines, the particular ones most deservinor of mention. In sculp-ture, Gelerts Strug-gle for Work,Theseus, and Lit-tle Architect; Bush-Browns Indian Buffalo Hunt; St. Gaudens Logan; Pard-ridges Shakespeare, Hamilton, and others; Powers* (sonof the great American sculpture, Hiram Powers) Figure of a
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UNITED STATES.—DICKENS AND LITTLE NELL (BRONZE). F. Edwin Elwell, Sculp.
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