Identifier: historyofrisepro00dunl_3 (find matches)
Title: A history of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Dunlap, William, 1766-1839 Bayley, Frank W. (Frank William), 1863-1932 Goodspeed, Charles E. (Charles Eliot), 1867-1950
Subjects: Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, C. E. Goodspeed & co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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lly. Notwithstanding this frenzy and ecstasy growing with hisgrowth, we are told that he applied patiently and with in-dustry to the study of drawing; and at the age of seventeen,after many masters had guided his hand, he says hereturned from France, whither I had gone to receive therudiments of my education. And then, at the age of seven-teen, my drawings had assumed some form. David hadguided my hand in tracing objects of a large size. I returned, he proceeds, to the woods of the new worldwith fresh ardor, and commenced a collection of drawings,which I henceforth continued, and which is now publishingunder the title of The Birds of America. Thus it mustappear that the collection of drawings publishing in 1831,was begun when he was seventeen years of age. In Pennsylvania, he says, a beautiful state, almost cen-tral on the line of our Atlantic States, my father, in his desireof proving my friend, gave me what Americans call a beauti-ful plantation; and here he commenced his simple and
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ARDUOUS ORNITHOLOGICAL PURSUITS 207 agreeable studies. We next understand, from him, that hebecame a husband. That he tried various branches of com-merce, and failed in them all. Twenty years passed in thesecommercial experiments, one of which, as I understand, waskeeping a shop in Broadway, New York, where he failed asin the others. His failures in commerce he attributes to hispassion for rambling and admiring those objects in naturefrom which alone, he says, I received the purest gratifica-tion. I had to struggle against the will of all who called them-selves my friends. I might here, however, except my wife andchildren. The remarks of my other friends irritated me be-yond endurance, and breaking through all bonds, I gavemyself up to my pursuits. I undertook long and tedious jour-neys: ransacked the woods, the lakes, the prairies, and theshores of the Atlantic. Years were spent away from my family.And during all this time, he says, Never, for a moment, didI conceive the hope of beco

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