 | Early English newspapers - 1842 - 1212 pages
...instruction from any sculptor in my life. For the next eight years I never made 51. in my profession ; the bust that I first got my reputation from, I made...and it went to the exhibition in model, for neither IIorneTooke nor I could afford to make it in marble. 1 got 12.000Л worth of commissions by tbat bust... | |
 | English essays - 1842 - 756 pages
...instruction from any sculptor in my life. For the next eight years I never made 51. in my profession ; the bust that I first got my reputation from, I made for nothing : it was a butt of Home Tooke, and it went to the exhibition in model, for neither HorneTooke nor I could afford... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - World history - 1843 - 776 pages
...profession. The bust by which I first got my reputation, 1 made for nothing — it was a bust of Home Tooke; it went to the exhibition in model, for neither Home Tooke nor 1 could afford to make it in marble. I got I ¿,000/. worth of commissions by that bust's exhibition... | |
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... answer to questions from counsel. Yours, &c. RR " 1 came to London in 1802, and then I began to labour at sculpture. I never worked for any other sculptors ; and what is more, I never had an hour's instruction from any sculptor in my life. For the... 