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Identifier: americanartamer01mont (find matches)
Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Yea, he,The pride of England, glistened like a star,And beckoned us to Stratford. In Stratford lived the ancestors of John Harvard, whose name is borne by Americas greatestuniversity; the genius of Washington Irving is intimately associated with the place ; and in one ofits open spaces stands the drinking fountain and clock tower given to the town in the year of theQueens Jubilee, by George W. Childs of Philadelphia. 378 AMERICAN ART Amid these fair and famous scenes, Winthrop Peirce established himself, occupying a studio ina quaint old stone mansion in Warwick, known as St. Johns House, because it occupies the siteof the hospital of St. John Baptist, founded in the reign of Henry II., by William de Newburgh,Earl of Warwick, to whose descendants it belongs. The present building seems to have beenerected in the reign of Elizabeth and that of her successor, simply as a manor-house. Peircepainted the ruins of that great stronghold of Kenilworth, which for a fayre and stately castle may
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In the River. Drawn by Peirce. compare with most in England, and upon improving which, to borrow Sir Walter Scotts words, and the domains around, the Earl of Leicester had, it is said, expended sixty thousand poundssterling, a sum equal to half a million of our present money. The outer wall of this splendid and gigantic structure enclosed seven acres, a part of which wasoccupied by extensive stables, and by a pleasure garden, with its trim arbors and parterres, and therest formed the large base-court, or outer yard of the noble castle. The lordly structure itself,which rose near the centre of this spacious enclosure, was composed of a huge pile of magnificentcastellated buildings, apparently of different ages, surrounding an inner court, and bearing in thenames attached to each portion of the magnificent mass, and in the armorial bearings which werethere blazoned, the emblems of mighty chiefs who had long passed away, and whose history, ; ■ tllr 1 jfi I III if1 ii ■ i1 I.; V llll

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