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71. Christopher Pearse Cranch. Caricature sketches of zoomorphic figures lined up before a man: “The ambitious soul sits down before each refractory fact”; of beasts chasing a man with the caption “The man has never lived that can feed us ever”; and of bugs: “Men in the world of today are bugs, ” [1838?].

Cranch

Cranch

Ink on paper. Joel Myerson Collection of Nineteenth-Century American Literature, University of South Carolina.

The drawings are all based on lines from Emerson’s “American Scholar” address, and different versions are printed in Miller's book on Cranch..

 

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