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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 11. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Sketch of the Lee Memorial Association. (search)
ve works of sculpture. It is a triumph in art that the sculptor may well be proud of, and which must be thoroughly satisfactory to every admirer of General Lee. We will only add to the criticisms which we have quoted above that the writer of this saw Valentine's original bust of Lee while he was at work on it and after its completion,—saw his original design of the Recumbent Figure, his study, his completed figure in plaster, and the marble at every stage from the rude block until in March, 1875, the artist gave it the finishing touches of his genius, and in Lexington, after the unveiling, we sat by and studied it by the hour, and heard the expressions of hundreds who came to see it. We think, therefore, that while laying no claim to being an Art critic in the technical sense of that term, we are competent to say that the figure fully reaches our conception of Marse Robert Asleep in his nightly bivouac beneath the stars, and that if the work has a fault, in its conception or exe