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Excerpt from Catalogue of Etchings and Dry-Points It is significant that there should be associated with his (brief) career in the government service at Washington a certain Coast Survey plate on which he etched a number of loosely drawn heads, showing, even at that early age and with all his inherited respect for the traditions of the place, a characteristic disregard of or indifference to offi cial decorum. In short, the spirit of the etcher had to come out, the happy moment for seizing a congenial subject could not be permitted to pass, no matter what suffered, or, from the official point of view, was disfigured. But when as a young man he definitively embraced the career of an artist and began his studies in the atelier of Gleyre, it was not with the etching needle alone that he proposed to make his way. On the contrary, he seems to have had quite as much enthusiasm for the brush, and, in fact, he remained ever after a practitioner of both arts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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