The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis by Harry Henderson

Author:Harry Henderson [Henderson, Harry Henderson and Albert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHY
Publisher: Esquiline Hill Press
Published: 2012-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Mrs. Chace

Following the pre-Lenten Carnival of 1873, feminist Elizabeth Chace arrived in Rome on a grand tour and bought a copy of Edmonia’s Young Octavian (Figure 36). Other sculptors also copied the Vatican Museums’ portrait of the youth who ultimately became Augustus Caesar. William Henry Rinehart made three copies. Chace wrote, “[Edmonia’s copy] seemed to all of us the best reproduction of the original then offered by any artist in Rome.”[489]

She took Edmonia for a ride in an open carriage on main promenades and over the Pincian Hill parkland. She particularly enjoyed Edmonia’s child-like delight in the drive. Since Edmonia’s father was “a man of color,” she said Edmonia should have been a painter. However, her mother was a “Chipp-e-way,” and it was “natural for her to be a sculptor.” Chace enjoyed her joke so much she put it in her memoirs. Edmonia, she recalled, was “especially delighted.”

Mrs. Chace, whose family had strong abolitionist roots, reported no complaints about racism from Edmonia. However, later, in Florence, she heard grumbles from Sarah Remond, a colored American from Salem whose eloquent brother she had admired.[490]

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