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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;oval_man, post: 1469549, member: 22602&quot;]I wanted to respond to your comment a half hour ago but had to wait for Lehigh&#039;s nickels to load (twice <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). I couldn&#039;t agree more about the importance of <i>scale </i>and in fact addressed it briefly in post #70 of this thread—with respect to both the SL and Barber designs. I think the SL design is most successful on the dollar; the forms of Liberty are able to breathe a little and she manages a bit of stature. But shrinking it down to successive mini-me versions was a bad idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>I know nothing about Gobrecht and what may have inspired his Liberty but I have this funny idea that at some point along the way, maybe through reading or travel, he learned that a triangular composition connotes stability and strength...</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://i712.photobucket.com/albums/ww128/ovalman/RaphaelMadofMeadjpg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Raphael, <i>Madonna of the Meadow</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p>... and became determined to make this work on a coin. Regardless of his inspiration, I give him credit for trying something different for his time. I still think the design is finicky and awkward and just doesn&#039;t work that well on the circular format. But it was 1836 and, as you say, there&#039;s a lot beyond (&quot;good&quot;) design to make these types interesting.</p><p><br /></p><p>PS: just read in the Red Book that Gobrecht &quot;was ordered ... to prepare a pair of dies based on designs by Thomas Sully and Titian Peale.&quot; So praise or blame has to be at least partially directed toward one of these.</p><p><br /></p><p>A quick search reminds me that Titian Peale was a son of noted American painter Charles Wilson Peale and brother of well-known artist Raphael Peale. Titian, Raphael... sounds like the elder Peale had big ambitions for his sons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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