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804 HARRIET HOSMER.
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-* E* Ik The Via Fontanella At Rome,—A S...
of years , or perliaps in consequence of it , a truly paternal and filial affection has sprung up between tlie twoa source of great
hap-, p know iness and to themselves value them , and , from of p the leasure curious and likeness amusement , yet to unlikeness all who ,
whichexisted from the first in Miss Hosmer to Mr . Gibson , and which , daily intercourse has not tended to lessen .
The first winter in Rome was passed in modelling from the antiMr . Gibson desiring to assure himself of the correctness
que , of Miss Hosmer ' s eye , and the soundness of her knowledge , Hesper evincing the possession of the imaginative and creative power .
From the first , Mr . Gibson expressed himself more than satisfied with her power of imitating the roundness and softness of flesh ,
saying , upon one occasion , that he had never seen it surpassed , and iiot often equalled .
Her first attempt at original design in Rome was a bust of Daphne , quickly succeeded by another of the Medusa—the beautiful
Medusa— and a lovely thing it is , faultless in form , and intense in its expression of horror and agony , without trenching on the
physicall We have y painful alread . y spoken of the warm friend Miss Hosmer made
for herself , during her winter at St . Louis , in the head of the family at whose house she was a guest . This gentleman , as a God-speed
to the young artist on her journey to Rome , sent her , on the eve of departure , an order to a large amount for the first figure she should
model , leaving her entirely free to select her own time and subject . A statue of CEnone was the resultwhich is now in the house of
Mr . Crowat St . Louis , and which , gave such satisfaction to its and , his fellow-townsmenthat an order was forwarded to
possessor Miss Hosmer for a statue for the Public , Library at St . Louis , on the same liberal and considerate terms . Beatrice Cenci , exhibited at
the Royal Academy last year , and which won so many golden opinions from critics and connoisseurs , was on its way to St . Louis ,
in fulfilment of this order . The summers in Rome are , as every one knows , trying to the
natives , and full of danger to foreigners . Dr . Plosmer having seen his daughter finally settled , returned to America , leaving her
with strict injunctions to seek some salubrious spot in the neighbouring mountains for the summer , if indeed she did not go into
Switzerland or England . Rome , however , was the centre of attraction and after the first seasonwhich was spent at Sorrento ,
on the out bay ; of si of Nap ht and les , Miss reach Hosmer of its lordl could , dome not be and prevailed noble treasures upon to y
of go art . The g third summer came , and listening to the advice of her friendsand in obedience to the express wish of her father , she
made arrangements , for a visit to England . The day was ' settled , the trunks were packedshe was on the eve of departure , when
a letter from America arrived , , informing her of heavy losses
sustained by her father , which must necessitate retrenchment in every
804 Harriet Hosmer.
804 HARRIET HOSMER .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 304, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/16/
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