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William Frederick Lamb was born on November 21, 1883, in Brooklyn. His father, William Lamb, was a widely known building contractor in Brooklyn and was originally from Glasgow , Scotland . His mother, Mary Louise Lamb ( née Wurster ), was the sister of Frederick W. Wurster , the last mayor of Brooklyn before it was consolidated with New York ...
William Lamb RSA (1 June 1893 – 12 January 1951) was a British sculptor and artist. He was a survivor of the " lost generation " who came of age in 1914, and was scarred, both mentally and physically, by the First World War .
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne (1779–1848), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; William Lamb (sculptor) (1893–1951), Scottish artist; William Lamb (Confederate States Army officer) (1835–1909) William Lamb alias Paniter (died 1550), Scottish author; William F. Lamb (1883–1952), principal designer of the Empire State Building
This is a list of cartoonists, visual artists who specialize in drawing cartoons.This list includes only notable cartoonists and is not meant to be exhaustive. Note that the word 'cartoon' only took on its modern sense after its use in Punch magazine in the 1840s - artists working earlier than that are more correctly termed 'caricaturists',
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The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature, and politics of his time.
At first the Notebook belonged to Blake's favourite younger brother and pupil Robert who made a few pencil sketches and ink-and-wash drawings in it. After death of Robert in February 1787, Blake inherited the volume beginning it with the series of sketches for many emblematic designs on a theme of life of a man from his birth to death.
Richmond Shreve of Shreve, Lamb & Blake oversaw the construction of the building's expansion and was tasked with solving logistical issues; however, not much is known about the tasks performed by William F. Lamb and Theodore Blake. [10] The structure is 520 feet (160 m) tall, [11] [12] [13] and it is cited as containing either 31 [11] [13] or ...