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Board of Trustees .- John P. Foote, President ; J. L. Vattier, M.D., Secretary ; A. N. Riddle, Treasurer ; William Mount, M. D., Jacob Strader, E. C. Roll, E. B. Reeder, G. W. Holmes, Miles Greenwood, Flamen Ball, B. F. Tefft, D. D.
Faculty .- H. W. Baxley, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.
John Locke, M. D., Professor of Chemistry and Pharmacy.
L. M. Lawson, M. D., Professor of Physiology and Pathology.
T. O. Edwards, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Thera- peutics, and Medical Jurisprudence.
R. D. Mussey, M. D., Professor of Surgery.
Landon C. Rives, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and the Diseases of women and children.
John Bell, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine. John Davis, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy.
L. M. Lawson, M. D., Dean.
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MEDICAL COLLEGES.
ECLECTIC MEDICAL INSTITUTE Chartered in 1845.
Z. FREEMAN, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.
Jos. R. Buchanan, M. D., Physiology and Institutes of Medicine.
Lorenzo E. Jones, M. D., Materia Medica and Therapeutics.
R. S. Newton, M. D., Surgery.
Benjamin L. Hill, M. D., Obstetrics.
I. Gibson Jones, M. D., Theory and Practice of Medicine.
J. Milton Sanders, Chemistry and Pharmacy.
This institution had enrolled upon its list of students, for the session of 1850-51, one hundred and ninety names.
PHYSO-MEDICAL COLLEGE. Corner of Fifth and Western Row. Chartered 1850.
FACULTY .- E. H. Stockwell, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.
J. A. Powers, 66
Surgery.
E. Morgan Parritt, “ 60 Chemistry.
Joseph Brown,
Materia Medica.
R. C. Carter,
Obstetrics.
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H. F. Johnson, 66 Practice of Med.
THE OHIO COLLEGE OF DENTAL SURGERY. Chartered in 1845.
BOARD OF TRUSTEES .- B. P. Aydelotte, D. D., President ; Israel Dodge, M. D., Secretary ; Robert Buchanan, Esq., Calvin Fletcher, Esq., William Johnston, Cincinnati, G. S. P. Hempstead, M. D., Portsmouth, Samuel Martin, M. D., Xenia, James P. Hildreth, M. D., Marietta, Ohio.
This Institution has matriculated seventy students, and conferred degrees on forty. of them. The Faculty stands :
James Taylor, M. D., D.D.S., Prof. Principles and Practice of Dental Surgery.
George Mendenhall, M. D., Prof. Pathology and Therapeutics.
Thomas Wood, M. D., Prof. Anatomy and Physiology ; John Allen, D. D. S., Prof. Operative Mechanical Dentistry ; G. L. Van Emon, A.M., D. D. S., Lecturer on Dental Chemistry and Demon- strator of Operative and Mechanical Dentistry.
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OHIO MECHANICS' INSTITUTE.
OHIO MECHANICS' INSTITUTE. Incorporated 1829.
THIS spacious and well proportioned edifice is at the intersection of Sixth and Vine Streets, and owes its construction to the public spirit of Miles Greenwood and a few other whole-souled mechanics, who have contributed liberally of their time, personal labors, and pecuniary contributions, to erect this highly creditable temple to the mechanic arts. Within its walls the various mechanics' fairs are annually held. Scientific knowledge is taught here by lectures, illustrated by extensive philosophical and electrical apparatus, and mineralogical cabinet; and impressed on the minds of the mem- bers by the use of a copious and valuable library, of more than five thousand volumes; and reading-room periodicals of more than forty, of first class public, scientific and philosophical jour- nals of the day.
There are twelve hundred members-five hundred of whom use the library. Of these last, more than three hundred are minors.
Courses of lectures weekly, have been held hitherto, throughout the winter months. These will be hereafter extended to three lectures in each week, during that season.
The edifice is four stories high, and Gothic in its style. Dimensions, 90 feet on Vine, by 75 on Sixth ; main entrance on Sixth. The walls are of brick, 85 feet high from the ground floor to top of cor- nice. The door and window sills are of cast iron, as are also the columns supporting the fronts. The exterior walls are finished with stucco imitation of stone, in the most durable manner. The entire height to the top of the roof is 100 feet, in the centre of which, is a cupola or lookout; and, as the building is situated on the most ele- vated point of land between the canal and river, from it will be afforded one of the finest views of the city, Covington and Newport, to be had elsewhere, except from the hills themselves.
The interior arrangements are also very complete. The lower part on Vine is occupied as stores, and the corner on Sixth, with its two fronts on Vine and Sixth, as fitted out by W. B. Chapman, is one of the best furnished and arranged drug-stores in Cincinnati. The large room next west of the main entrance, is devoted to the exclusive use of mechanics, as a show room for manufactured articles of home fabrication, embracing every department of the mechanic arts. Here, for a slight rental, the artisan can deposit for inspec-
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tion or sale, such of the creations of his genius as he desires to bring before the community, both for his own and their benefit.
The second story is occupied as a library, reading and class rooms, exclusively by the Institute.
The third story contains the Institute hall, 90 by 65 feet, with convenient anterooms attached.
The fourth story, halls for the I. O. of O. F.
The building is warmed with hot air, and lighted with gas. Es- timated cost $50,000.
Officers .- M. Greenwood, President; R. C. Philips, Vice-Presi- dent; Wm. G. Neilson, Recording Secretary ; W. B. Chapman, Corresponding Secretary ; L. T. Wells, Treasurer; Jos. B. Ladd, Librarian.
YOUNG MEN'S MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
OFFICERS for 1851 .- Joseph C. Butler, President; James Lupton, Vice President ; Robert L. Fabian, Corresponding Secretary ; H. D. Huntington, Recording Secretary ; William H. Neff, Treasurer. Charles R. Fosdick, B. P. Hinman, F. W. Ridgely, L. A. Ostram, Samuel Robbins, Directors ; Charles E. Cist, Librarian, George W. Frazer, Assistant Librarian.
Library and reading-rooms in the Cincinnati College, on Walnut street; open every day, Sundays excepted, from eight o'clock in the morning until ten in the evening.
This association was first organized by the election of officers and the adoption of a constitution and by-laws, April 18, 1835.
At the commencement of the present year, the number of mem- bers, was sixteen hundred and twenty-three. Two hundred and thirty-four names have been since added to the list. Of this number, one hundred and sixty-five are active, and sixty-nine, honorary.
During the year, twelve hundred and ninety-two volumes have been added to the library ; eleven hundred and fifty-nine by purchase, one hundred and thirty-three by donation, together with thirty-two volumes of bound periodicals and magazines; making the total number of volumes now in the library, eleven thousand and ninety- six, embracing the standard works in the various departments of literature, science, and art, and a copious selection from current literature of those works that are attractive, and interesting, and
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beneficial in their tendency, and will be read by the great majority of readers, while graver works remain upon the shelves.
The Reading Room constitutes one of the most attractive features of the association. Here are regularly received fifteen Quarterly, one Bi-Monthly, thirty-two Monthly, and two Weekly magazines; and the list of newspapers extends to ninety-one, embracing those from every part of our own country, and the most interesting from foreign lands.
Lectures, on various popular subjects, by gentlemen of distin- guished reputation from all parts of the United States, are delivered weekly, throughout the winter, and form an interesting feature of this Institution.
The Library and Reading Rooms are much frequented by strangers ; of whom there are always great numbers visiting Cincinnati.
The current expenses, as well as the constant additions made to the library shelves and reading desks, are amply met by the contri- butions of the members, and revenue from lectures ; which last year amounted to $5,113 12 cents ; an amount highly creditable to the Institution and its supporters.
There are few objects in the city which so forcibly impress strangers in general as this Library, and the Reading Rooms, its adjuncts.
APPRENTICES' LIBRARY.
THIS Institution was founded, February 8, 1821, and was estab- lished by public contributions of books and money. It contains two thousand two hundred volumes of interesting works of history, travels, voyages, arts and sciences, philosophy, chemistry, classics, religion and morality ; and in fact, nearly every work which is of an instructive nature to youth. About four hundred volumes are taken out weekly.
It is governed by a Board of Directors, who are appointed annually, by the contributors to the library ; if they neglect to do so at the time specified, the city council make the appointment.
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IX. THE FINE ARTS.
THE Fine Arts appear to seek geographical localities. Many of the cities of the old world give evidence of this; and the sphere of the beautiful in one branch has so harmonized with that of others, so great has been the affinity in the different classes of the ennobling arts, that, in order to enjoy the genial influences of association, they have rendered some of these old, and otherwise worn-out capi- tals of the European states, the magnets, which to this day, attract to them all those who are in love with the beautiful, from all parts of the civilized world. The fame and character of Florence, is made up in the eye and heart of thousands, who will never see the beau- tiful things in her rich galleries ; of the knowledge, that she has given to the world, and still retains within her borders, unnumbered and glorious evidences, that she had a real and fostering love of the grand, the beautiful and sublime in art and poesy. This is her character ; and she has obtained it, by a long course of faithful and truth-loving appreciation of those, who, by their genius, talents and labor, were rendering her, hundreds of years gone by, almost the centre of the artistic world, at the present day. Is it not worth something to have the reflection of genius cast upon a city by her own sons ? Is it not a living light that cannot be destroyed, what- ever may betide in after time ?
Cincinnati has sent from her young bosom, some names, which now have an existence in the world of art, that can never perish. These names, with those of her savans, more than any and all her other citizens, have rendered her known in Europe. She is looked upon, by those whose esteem is precious as jewels, as the artistic and scientific city of our great Republic ; as the centre of the most cultivated and art-loving, and, consequently, the most refined people on our Continent. Now, for so young a nation, and still younger city, this is a high position : it should be the wish of all that it may be sustained with honor to ourselves, and justice toward those, who are the immediate cause of our reflected greatness. Our love for these great pursuits, should be manifested, so palpably springing from a proper source, that it would be no discredit in our
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assuming a fair share of the honor of our public position. We should aid those who are aiding us. Heretofore we have enjoyed the honor arising from the exertions, the genius, and taste of our artists, without giving them that sympathy and substantial en- couragement, that just appreciation of their laborious efforts, which should make this, the home of their gratitude and affections. This it has not been. Can we point to anything as our share in the mutual labor of giving our city the honorable place she now holds ? The answer is an expressive silence. It should be our pleasure, as it is our duty, in these efforts at elevation of the public taste, to establish an Academy of Design, which should be open to all classes of artisans. There should be sections of artists in painting and sculpture, architecture, ornamental marble and stone workers, carvers in wood and metal, gold and silversmiths, cabinet makers ; and indeed, as many other occupations as choose to unite themselves in separate sections, for the purpose of mutual instruction, in the art of Design. Collections of paintings and models, sculptures, carv- ings, engravings, engraved gems, original drawings, plaster casts, from the best antique statues, as well as modern, bronzes, and a well-selected library upon the Fine Arts, should be some of the attrac- tions to draw students from all parts of our common country here, to be instructed and elevated in their different walks ; thus as from a common centre radiating a just and classical taste to all around us, both in form and color. We should cultivate a study of truth in art, by a just, fearless, and honest criticism upon our own works, which should supersede the newspaper puffs of the present day, that are destitute of all correct knowledge of art or of modesty ; and have ruined many of those artists whose success they were meant to promote.
That an Academy of Design, properly endowed, can be estab- lished, none can doubt, when they remember how easily the large sum of nearly $25,000 was raised for the benefit of the present Arts Union, and the still more liberal purchase of the Peale Paintings, and the establishment of the Picture Gallery, of which it is to form the nucleus. An Academy of Design, with its different sections, would be a source of instruction, the effects of which would be seen in all our houses as well as in their exterior ; in all our cemeteries, and in all our public buildings ; each one being a monu- ment itself of the liberality, good taste, and good sense, of its founders. Then could we say, with just pride, that our city had
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seconded, with a beautiful spirit, the high and ennobling aims, the rich taste, and unclouded genius of her artists. A mirror of strength and talent would be visible on all sides ; and in the future, might be discerned, the lofty place occupied by the Queen of the West among the cultivated and enlightened cities of the world.
ARTS UNION HALL.
THIS fine saloon, with its attendant offices, occupies the fourth story of the building at the corner of Sycamore and Fourth Streets ; to which it has given its own name. This hall is 71 by 33 feet, on the floor, and 24 feet to the skylight above. It is not quite as long as the exhibition room of the New York Arts Union, but is wider and higher, and therefore of equal extent. It will serve to display three hundred pictures of average size. As many as three hundred pictures, of various sizes, have been exhibited here at one time. A picture has been recently ordered by the directors, of Mrs. Lily Martin Spencer, at 250 dollars; and a statue or other subject, in marble, to Hiram Powers, with a carte blanche as to design, and the price to be set by himself at from $3000 to $5000 dollars.
PICTURE GALLERY.
William Wiswell, a public-spirited citizen of ours, has recently fitted up a picture gallery, to which visitors are not only admitted without charge, but afforded the opportunity of seeing it during any period of daylight, which may suit their convenience-the entrance door standing open all the time.
. A valuable collection of three hundred portraits, fancy and his- torical pieces, embracing the works of Kellogg, Beard, Rothermel, Heade, and other well-known artists, is there placed, under the safe- guard of the community, to whose sense of honor and justice, the proprietor has appealed ; and up to this period, with well justified confidence.
The gem of this gallery is Powers' recently executed bust of Gen. Jackson ; one of his highest achievements in this line.
ARTISTS.
CINCINNATI has been, for many years, extensively and favorably known as the birthplace, if not the home of a school of artists, who
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may be found in various parts of Europe, to say nothing of those in great numbers, whose talent has found exercise in the various great cities of our own republic. The following list gives their names; the date at which they commenced their course ; their pre- sent residence, with names of persons in whose parlors their pic- tures, statues, &c., may be found.
The first class consists of those whose career commences gener- ally at an early date, such as,
Edwin B. Smith, 1815 .- Portraits and historical pieces ; D. Churchill, J. H. Cromwell.
A. W. Corwine, 1821 .- Portraits ; Capt. J. Pierce, P. S. Symmes, N. Guilford, Timothy Walker, &c.
Joseph Mason, 1822 .- Portraits; George Selves, Mrs. Mason, D. Churchill.
Joseph Kyle, 1823 .- New York City. Portraits, and fancy pieces ; S. Stibbs, M. Burt. His paintings are mostly in New York, where he has resided for many years.
Samuel M. Lee, 1826 .- Landscapes; P. S. Symmes, Joseph Graham, D. B. Lawler, J. G. Worthington, T. H. Yeatman, J. S. Armstrong, &c. His best works are at Louisville, Kentucky.
Alonzo Douglass, 1828 .- Cincinnati. Portraits ; Andrew Burt, James Douglass.
C. Harding, 1828 .- Portraits ; S. S. L'Hommedieu, Philip Young.
Tuttle, 1830, was a pupil of West .- Portraits; J. H. Cromwell, T. H. Yeatman, Jacob Burnet.
Daniel Steele, 1830.
John J. Tucker, 1834 .- Portraits; Dr. Shotwell and George Selves.
Sidney S. Lyon, 1836 .- Louisville. Portraits and landscapes ; M. M. Carll, Mark P. Taylor, Jonathan Lyon.
Those to whose names no residence is affixed, are known or believed to be no longer in life. Of those who are known to survive, Douglass and Lyon have engaged in other pursuits.
This list has been confined to portrait and landscape painters-it might, however, include Shubael Clevenger, modeler and sculptor, who commenced in 1836, and died in 1844, on his way home from Italy ; and Augustus Rostaing, who executed cameo likenesses and fancy heads in shell, in 1835, and left this country subsequently, for Paris, France, where he now resides. Also Thomas Campbell, a miniature painter, who commenced here in 1840, and has since de-
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ceased. Clevenger has left busts which may be seen in the parlors of N. Longworth, William Greene, and Judge Burnet. Ros- taing's Cameos ; N. Longworth, J. C. Hall; and Campbell's minia- tures-Wm. Yorke, J. H. Beard, J. D. Jones, J. P. Broadwell, and A. Baldwin.
Artists living, and in practice-Portrait and Composition Painters- Miner K. Kellogg, 1828 .- New York. Portraits, compositions, and fancy pieces ; Charles S. Kellogg, N. Longworth, Wm. Manser, Reuben R. Springer, S. I. Kellogg. He has a copy of Stuart's portrait of Washington, and original portraits of Presidents Van Buren and Polk, at Wiswell's gallery of paintings on Fourth Street, and an original portrait of General Jackson at the Masonic Hall. He has painted another copy of Stuart's Washington, for the Legis- lature of New Jersey,-of Chief Justice Taney, for the Baltimore bar; and General Scott for the New York city authorities. He has also executed the only portrait of General Worth extant. Among his compositions, are the Circassian, a female figure, for James Robb of New Orleans; and what is probably his best work in this line, the Greek captive, ordered by Riggs, of the firm of Corcoran & Riggs, Washington city. A few years since, Kellogg, on a visit to Constantinople, made a full length portrait of Redschid Pacha, Prime Vizier of the Sultan of Turkey; on which occasion, and as a mark of that minister's gratification, Kellogg received from him a superb gold cup, profusely set with diamonds.
J. H. Beard, 1830 .- Cincinnati. Portraits, fancy heads and groups; Charles Stetson, R. R. Springer, S. S. L'Hommedieu, J. S. Arm- strong, Griffin Taylor, S. E. Foote, G. K. Shoenberger, and W. R. Morris. Beard's portraits are in most of our principal cities. He has painted full length portraits of Charles Hammond and General Harrison, and a three-quarter length, of Gen. Taylor, on orders from public institutions.
His compositions are "The Emigrants," " Poor Relations," "Last of the Red Men," Last Victim of the Deluge ;" and more recently, " the Squatters." This last is to be sent to England, as a picture of back woods life in America, in some of its aspects.
John Frankenstein, 1831 .- Springfield, Ohio. Portraits, historical subjects, sculptures, and landscapes ; Jos. Pierce, Aaron Bowen, W. P. Resor, J Rowan, Bardstown, Kentucky, W. H. Seward, Peter A. Porter, and John C. Spencer, New York State; Professor Frost and Matthew T. Miller, Philadelphia; Thomas Thompson, Boston,
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and L. Derbyshire, Toronto, Canada. Among his composition and historical pieces, are : The Holy Family-Indian in contemplation- Madonna-The Butt-Day Dreams-The Bud-Isaiah and the Infant Saviour-Christ mocked in the Prætorium. Most of these are owned in our eastern cities and in Canada.
E. Hall Martin, 1831 .- California. Portraits and marine pieces ; Wm. M. Ward, Wm. Noble, John Martin, B. Kirby, E. J. Miller.
W. H. Powell, 1833 .- Paris, France. Portraits, fancy and his- torical pieces ; N. Longworth, Larz Anderson, N. C. McLean, Wm. M. Hubbell, Mrs. Powell, Dr. Smith. "Salvator Rosa among the Brigands," was his first historical piece, and painted in 1823. This was followed by " Columbus before the Council at Salamanca," which being exhibited at Washington City, in 1847, obtained him the appointment, by Congress, to paint an historical piece, to fill the last vacant panel in the Rotunda of the Capitol. This distinction was conferred on him by the unanimous vote of the Senate, and a vote of 195 to 34 in the House of Representatives, over more than sixty artists, who were his competitors. On this painting, now nearly completed, he has been engaged during the last four years ; the subject is " De Soto discovering the Mississippi." He has also on hand, " The Burial of De Soto," and a full length portrait of " Lamartine ;" which last is a commission from the Maryland His- torical Society. Powell has painted two fine portraits of J. Q. Adams, the larger of which he presented to the Cincinnati Observ- atory. He has also painted " The Signing of the Constitution, of the Pilgrims on board the Mayflower," and " The Calabrian Peasant Girl ;" " The Italian Shepherd Boy," and " The Roman Cattle Drover ;" the last three of small size.
Thomas B. Reed, is a poet as well as a painter, and of high order of merit in either line, 1836 .- Florence. Portraits, landscapes, and historical pieces ; E. B. Reeder, W. R. Morton, I. G. Burnet, J. J. Wright, Dr. Drake, George Selves, E. Wiswell. Among his compositions are "Love's First Whisper," and " Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to his Daughters," and " Loves of the Zephyrs," a fine ideal.
W. P. Brannan, 1837 .- California. Portraits, landscapes, and fancy pieces. A. Donogh, Mrs. J. P. Campbell, S. Burdsal, D. G. A. Davenport, R. Adams, George Cullum, Dr. S. O. Almy, S. S. Smith, Wm. Piatt, S. M. Hart.
A. Baldwin, 1838 .- Cincinnati. landscapes and marine pieces ;
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Andrew J. Burt, S. S. Smith, R. W. Lee, E. Dexter, S. Stokes, J. B. Russell.
T. W. Whittridge, 1838 .- Dusseldorf. Landscapes ; R. R. Springer, A. W. Bullock, W. G. Breese, H. Probasco, Miss L. M. Hartwell, W. A. Collard, D. B. Lawler, F. C. Yeatman, James Lupton, Chas. Anderson, Lewis Stagg, S. B. Palmer.
John Cranch, 1839 .- New York. Portraits and fancy pieces ; E. J. Miller, Mrs. A. Wood, E. Dexter, J. Longworth J. W. Coleman, Dr. L. C. Rives, J. P. Foote, D. K. Este, jr.
G. N. Frankenstein, 1840 .- Springfield, Ohio. Landscape and portraits ; Griffin Taylor, George Selves, Dr. Locke, C. D. Dana, W. S. Sampson, J. D. Park, B. F. Sandford, W. B. Wood, Donn Piatt, Charles E. Cist, J. F. Taylor, J. H. Coleman, D. B. Pierson, J. T. Hinsdale, R. S. Bacon, Cincinnati. Thomas H. Shreve, Ben Cassidy, Professor Noble Butler, and Rev. J. Craik, Louisville, P. A. Porter, G. W. Holley, Niagara Falls, N. Y., Professor Frost, Philadelphia, Abbott Lawrence, Charles Francis Adams, George Ticknor, and Dr. S. A. Bemis, Boston, Mass., S. Derbyshire, S. Keefer, Toronto, and George Desbarats, Montreal, Canada.
It is characteristic of G. N. Frankenstein, that his landscapes, even in the minutest details, are strictly from Nature. His land- scapes are never fancy pieces, or copies from other artists.
Charles Soule, 1841 .- Cincinnati. Portraits, fruit pieces, &c .; J. D. Jones, D. K. Este, jr., Charles Anderson, N. Wright, Judge Burnet, Larz Anderson, N. Longworth. He has painted a full length portrait of Josiah Lawrence, for the Merchants' Exchange ; indeed, his portraits, like those of Beard, are hard to be numbered ; like Beard too, he is the favorite painter of portraits.
William L. Sonntag, 1842 .- Cincinnati. Landscapes; A. S.Winslow Charles Stetson, Thomas Faris, J. T. Foote, Adam N. Riddle, N. G. Pendleton, Barton White, Chs. L. Strong, William Wilshire, E. S. Brooks, E. B. Reeder, Henry Howe, J. N. Ridgway; many of Sonu- tag's best pieces, are in our Atlantic Cities.
Lilly Martin Spencer .- New York. Fancy and historical pieces ; W. Gregory, T. Faris, Arts Union, N. C. McLean, Mrs. J. P. Camp- bell, W. G. Breese, A. M. Taylor. Her compositions are generally subjects taken from Shakspeare, such as " Lear and his Daughters," " Ophelia," " Romeo and Juliet."
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