Drowne

"Drowne," said the true artist, grasping the carver fervently by the hand, "you are a man of genius!"

Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"Drowne," said Copley, who had hardly missed a single day in his visits to the carver's workshop, "if this work were in marble it would make you famous at once; nay, I would almost affirm that it would make an era in the art.

Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

"Drowne," said Copley with a smile of intelligence, "you have been a truly fortunate man.

Mosses from an Old Manse and other stories Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834

Happy marriage: Drowne, 48, quoting letter in Oxford Eagle, 9/14/50.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

Happy marriage: Drowne, 48, quoting letter in Oxford Eagle, 9/14/50.

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

The figure has kept this attitude for seventy years or more, ever since good Deacon Drowne, a cunning carver of wood, first stationed him on his long sentinel's watch over the city.

The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

“Quid de meo, mi carissime Drowne, cogitas silentio?

Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. V 1916

` ` Mr. Copley, '' said Drowne, quietly, ` ` I know nothing of marble statuary, and nothing of the sculptor's rules of art; but of this wooden image, this work of my hands, this creature of my heart, '' -- and here his voice faltered and choked in a very singular manner, -- ` ` of this -- of her -- I may say that I know something.

Drowne's Wooden Image 1846

` ` I have not wrought it for money, '' said Drowne.

Drowne's Wooden Image 1846

` ` And Drowne, '' said he, impressively, ` ` you must lay aside all other business and set about this forthwith.

Drowne's Wooden Image 1846