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<p>[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4677627, member: 17073"][ATTACH=full]1151997[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Engraved portrait of Daniel Boone<b> by Alonzo <i>Chapple</i> (</b><a href="https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll32/search/searchterm/Chappel%2C%20Alonzo%2C%201828-1887/field/subjec/mode/exact/conn/and" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll32/search/searchterm/Chappel%2C%20Alonzo%2C%201828-1887/field/subjec/mode/exact/conn/and" rel="nofollow">Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887</a>)<b>. </b>This photograph is of an engraved portrait of frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820) sitting on rock with his rifle and with his dog beside him. The engraving's lower border has Boone's signature. American artist and book illustrator Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887) created the original painting ca. 1861. Chappel portrays Boone as an older man with white hair but still rugged and purposeful. Courtesy of <i>Ohio History Connection</i>.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1151998[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b><a href="https://www.si.edu/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.si.edu/" rel="nofollow">Smithsonian Website</a><i>: National Portrait Gallery</i>, John</b></p><p><b>James Audubon: January 27, 1851 by <a href="https://npg.si.edu/staff/warren-perry" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://npg.si.edu/staff/warren-perry" rel="nofollow">Warren Perry</a>.</b></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If you will take them the two designs and place them in the hands of the Fine Arts Commission with the suggestions and changes which you propose to me, I will be very glad to adhere to whatever criticism they shall make of the designs. But in any case, I should have to have the plaster models returned to me so that I can make changes, but I do not feel that any progress can be made until the Fine Arts Commission see these models and pass their judgment on them for as things now stand it is evidently the purpose of some member of your commission to kill the design entirely.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I volunteered my services to the extent of doing the model for you for half price, I understood that your commission lacked funds entirely for this work. I suppose that it was the purpose of your commission to have the work done by an artist whose reputation was sufficiently established that his work when placed before the Art Commission might be acceptable to the Government as well as have the sales value that would meet the public’s liking. If this is not the purpose of your commission then for heaven’s sake, do not let me hold you up any longer. As I have just stated, over a month of my time has already been consumed on the models which I sent to you. It would take a lot of time to make new models if I had the time to take away from the work that I now have in hand. However, I can make any reasonable changes in small details on the model’s in a week’s time, but I cannot work on uncertainty as to whether the general scheme is approved or ‘turned down’ by the Fine Arts Commission. If you wish me to go with you to Washington when you are ready to present the design, which is only right and proper, I shall be glad to do so at my expense. As the matter stands and as I see it, it is just a compromise between conflicting interests who apparently don’t know the first essentials necessary in the sales value as well as the design of a coin. Whether I am to proceed with this work further, or not, will you be kind enough to return to my summer studio at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the models and let me know whether your commission, in all fairness to me as an artist, wish me to meet them in Washington to present the models the Mine (<i>sic</i>) Arts Commission for their consideration. </p><p><br /></p><p>P.S. The block house fort design as indicated in the model is the Boone block house fort. The repetition of dates, 1734-1934 on the coin, I am not convinced will help the coin in any way for the simple reason that the inscription reads ‘Daniel Boone Bicentennial’ and opposite the composition ‘Pioneer Year.’ The coin itself must be dated according to law, therefore bears the numerals 1934. This matter of dates as conflicting, to my mind should be taken up with the Mint and if they feel that necessity of having extra numerals on the coin, I should be perfectly willing to ‘kill the composition’ by taking out the dog. The only criticism I feel as to the dog is whether it should be a pointer or a setter. If a pointer, the tail should be up, and if a setter, the tail should be down. I see no necessity of making a drawing because the model is completed except for the changes that the commission have suggested. The sooner we take these models to Washington, the sooner you can get your coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1151999[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Old Fort at Boonesboro. Courtesy <i>History of Kentucky</i> by the late Lewis Collins, Judge of Madison County court, p. 529.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="leeg, post: 4677627, member: 17073"][ATTACH=full]1151997[/ATTACH] [B]Engraved portrait of Daniel Boone[B] by Alonzo [I]Chapple[/I] ([/B][URL='https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p267401coll32/search/searchterm/Chappel%2C%20Alonzo%2C%201828-1887/field/subjec/mode/exact/conn/and']Chappel, Alonzo, 1828-1887[/URL])[B]. [/B]This photograph is of an engraved portrait of frontiersman Daniel Boone (1734-1820) sitting on rock with his rifle and with his dog beside him. The engraving's lower border has Boone's signature. American artist and book illustrator Alonzo Chappel (1828-1887) created the original painting ca. 1861. Chappel portrays Boone as an older man with white hair but still rugged and purposeful. Courtesy of [I]Ohio History Connection[/I].[/B] [ATTACH=full]1151998[/ATTACH] [B][URL='https://www.si.edu/']Smithsonian Website[/URL][I]: National Portrait Gallery[/I], John James Audubon: January 27, 1851 by [URL='https://npg.si.edu/staff/warren-perry']Warren Perry[/URL].[/B] If you will take them the two designs and place them in the hands of the Fine Arts Commission with the suggestions and changes which you propose to me, I will be very glad to adhere to whatever criticism they shall make of the designs. But in any case, I should have to have the plaster models returned to me so that I can make changes, but I do not feel that any progress can be made until the Fine Arts Commission see these models and pass their judgment on them for as things now stand it is evidently the purpose of some member of your commission to kill the design entirely. When I volunteered my services to the extent of doing the model for you for half price, I understood that your commission lacked funds entirely for this work. I suppose that it was the purpose of your commission to have the work done by an artist whose reputation was sufficiently established that his work when placed before the Art Commission might be acceptable to the Government as well as have the sales value that would meet the public’s liking. If this is not the purpose of your commission then for heaven’s sake, do not let me hold you up any longer. As I have just stated, over a month of my time has already been consumed on the models which I sent to you. It would take a lot of time to make new models if I had the time to take away from the work that I now have in hand. However, I can make any reasonable changes in small details on the model’s in a week’s time, but I cannot work on uncertainty as to whether the general scheme is approved or ‘turned down’ by the Fine Arts Commission. If you wish me to go with you to Washington when you are ready to present the design, which is only right and proper, I shall be glad to do so at my expense. As the matter stands and as I see it, it is just a compromise between conflicting interests who apparently don’t know the first essentials necessary in the sales value as well as the design of a coin. Whether I am to proceed with this work further, or not, will you be kind enough to return to my summer studio at Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the models and let me know whether your commission, in all fairness to me as an artist, wish me to meet them in Washington to present the models the Mine ([I]sic[/I]) Arts Commission for their consideration. P.S. The block house fort design as indicated in the model is the Boone block house fort. The repetition of dates, 1734-1934 on the coin, I am not convinced will help the coin in any way for the simple reason that the inscription reads ‘Daniel Boone Bicentennial’ and opposite the composition ‘Pioneer Year.’ The coin itself must be dated according to law, therefore bears the numerals 1934. This matter of dates as conflicting, to my mind should be taken up with the Mint and if they feel that necessity of having extra numerals on the coin, I should be perfectly willing to ‘kill the composition’ by taking out the dog. The only criticism I feel as to the dog is whether it should be a pointer or a setter. If a pointer, the tail should be up, and if a setter, the tail should be down. I see no necessity of making a drawing because the model is completed except for the changes that the commission have suggested. The sooner we take these models to Washington, the sooner you can get your coinage. [ATTACH=full]1151999[/ATTACH] [B]Old Fort at Boonesboro. Courtesy [I]History of Kentucky[/I] by the late Lewis Collins, Judge of Madison County court, p. 529.[/B][/QUOTE]
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