Acquaintance of one’s
Hi. Does the green sentence mean:
1. Old friends and relatives of the general before his death, helped the artist to correct the details
or
2. The old companionship of the artist with the general when he was alive, helped him to correct the details
Context:
Soon after his return to England in the autumn of 1759, Wolfe’s protégé, the Duke of Richmond, commissioned Sir Joseph Wilton to model Wolfe’s likeness from the dead man’s face. The army had shipped Wolfe’s corpse in a stone casket to England, where it arrived on 16 November, at Spithead off the Isle of Wight. Wilton went immediately to record his features but found the face so badly decomposed that he could make no impressions from it. According to novelist Horace Walpole, Wilton needed some other model. A local servant deemed to resemble Wolfe very closely was found. A long-standing acquaintance of the general’s then corrected the details.
Top answer
red apple A long-standing acquaintance of the general’s then corrected the details. ~ After this, someone whom the general had known for a long time corrected the details. CJ
- red apple A long-standing acquaintance of the general’s then corrected the details.
- ~ After this, someone whom the general had known for a long time corrected the details.
- CJ
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red appleA long-standing acquaintance of the general’s then corrected the details.
~ After this, someone whom the general had known for a long time corrected the details.
CJ
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