296 SCULPTURE BY POWERS. [CHAP. XXXVI. 



better looking and less dark than many of the other 

 pupils. 



At Mr. Longworth s we saw a beautiful piece of 

 sculpture, an ideal head called Ginevra, by Hiram 

 Powers, who had sent it from Borne as a present to 

 his first patron. It appeared to me worthy of the 

 genius of the sculptor of &quot; Eve &quot; and the &quot; Greek 

 Slave.&quot; Thorwaldsen, when he saw Powers &quot;Eve,&quot; 

 foretold that he would create an era in his art ; and 

 not a few of the Italians now assign to him the first 

 place in the &quot; Naturalista &quot; school, though assuredly 

 there is much of the ideal also in his conceptions of 

 the beautiful. It augurs well for the future cultiva 

 tion of the fine arts in the United States, that the 

 Americans are as proud of their countryman s success 

 as he himself could desire. 



