The Writing Table of the Twentieth Century Being An Account of Heraldry Art E
The Writing Table of the Twentieth Century Being An Account of Heraldry Art E
F Schuyler Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews
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They offer an excellent oppor- tunity for a comparison of modern with ancient art of this character. Your modern artist is particular about having his coin perfectly round and evenly milled at the edge. THE PERKINS COLLECTION OF ANCIENT COINS. PLATE A. stationery 133 but he is not one-half so particular about having his eagle instinct with life and character. To tell the truth, it is not so easy to make the eagle look as though he breathed ; one does not always have the genius, the knack, to ma...ke an eagle look alive on a coin ! The same facts apply to the rather well outlined Indian's head on our one cent piece. It is absolutely devoid of life and interest, not, either, because it happens to be in extremely low relief, for the Victorian head on the English coin is infinitely better although cut not a bit higher. The life and expressiveness of the face on the central large coin in PL A by no means depends upon the excep- tionally high relief in which it is cut ; the artist devoted all his power to the attainment of a life-like likeness — and he evidently got it !
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