This exciting work presents several sketches of the celebrated writers painters sculptors
models and other impressive personalities. Anecdotes and reminiscences of Hans Christian
Andersen Thackeray Vernet John Gibson Delaroche Princess Borghese Ivanoff Gordon
Crawford Thorwaldsen and a group of equally famous people are mixed with remarkable and
interesting extracts from the history of representatives of the upper classes of Italian
society or of the humble ranks from which artists secure the models for their sculptures and
paintings.
