Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from James and William Tassie: A Biographical and Critical Sketch With a Catalogue of Their Portrait Medallions of Modern Personages
IN this Volume an attempt has been made to produce an adequate record of the career and productions of James Tassie and William Tassie; the former an artist of fine skill and tireless industry, who has done more than most men to diffuse a taste for classical art, and to preserve the visible aspect of his contemporaries; the latter, his nephew, who ably and diligently carried on his work.
It is to be regretted that this attempt has not been earlier undertaken, while more of personal detail could have been preserved; and such facts as I have now secured have been collected from very varied and widely scattered sources.
The classical reproductions of James Tassie have been fully dealt with by Raspe in his Descriptive Catalogue; and I have here concerned myself mainly with the original portrait medallions executed by the Tassies, or with the production of which they were associated, confining my Catalogue to these only.
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