# The spirit of American sculpture

Author: Adams, Adeline, 1859-1948

Genre: Category: History - American

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72502

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+spirit+of+American+sculpture+Adams&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

What a pity that Thackeray, surveying our pre-Revolutionary American world in the interest of his Esmond and his Virginians, had not chanced to espy the valiant figure of our first American sculptor, Mrs. Patience Lovell Wright of New Jersey,--Quaker, wax-image-maker, traveler, keen Republican observer of the moods of British royalty and the movements of British troops! Had his mind’s eye but once seen her in her eagerly-frequented rooms on Pall Mall, with the notables of the town literally under her thumb, in wax, and over her shoulder, in the flesh, we might have had from his pen a portrait worthy to live beside that of Beatrix, or of Madam Esmond, or of the Fotheringay herself. Similar...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-spirit-of-american-sculpture-72502/chapters/7/index.md)