The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-09-10
PROSPECTUS
THE AMERICAN ART-UNlON
0EFICERS FOR ls49.

OFFICERS FOR ls49.
pRospER NJ WETMoRE, President. GEORGE w
/ AUSTEN Treasurer. ANDREW WARNER, Core
spending Secretary. NATHANIEL JARVIS, JR, he
cording Secretary
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEMENT.-GeorgeW Aus
ten James III. Van Allen, Henry j. Raymond, Eras-
tus c. Benedict, William b. Deem, Prosper Nj. Wet
more, Charles II. Russell; Nathaniel Jarvis, jr.
John p. Ridner, William ]. Hoppin, Abraham NJ
Cozzens, Marshall o. Roberts, Frederick A. Coe,
Lefferts G Coles, Robert Kelly, Andrew Warner
Benjamin H. Jarvis, John H. Austen, James W.
Beekman, Philip Hone, Evert A. Duyckinck
! EXECUTIVE ComMrTTEE.-Abraham M. Cozzens
| Chairman, Andrew Warner, William j. Hoppin,
| Frederick A. Coe, Benjamin III. Jarvis. President
and Treasurer, eT atfcio
| SUPERINTENDENT. Wllllam Moore.
! PLAN
Every subscriber of FIVE DOLLARS is mem
Der OF the Art Union for the year. and is enteo 70
all its privileges.
The money thus obtained (after paying necessary
expenses, Is applied
| ORIGINAL ENGRAVING from an American paint
ing of which the plate and copyright belong to the
Institution, and used solely for its benefit VI
this Engraving every member receives copy Tor
every five dollars paid by him Members entitled
10 duplicates are at liberty TO select from the en-
cravings of previous years. Whenever the funds
Justify il, AN EXTRA ENGRAVING OR WORK
| OF ART is also furnished to every member. Every
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| proceedings, &C.. of the Institution.
Second-To the purchase Of PAINTINGS and
I SCULPTURE, STATUETTES in Bronze, and
! MEDALS, by native or resident artists. lhese
paintings and sculptures are publicly exhibited al
the Gallery of the Art Union till the annual meet
ing in December, when they are PUBLICLY DIS
TRIBUTED BY LOT among the members, each
member having share for every tve dollars PAID
! by him Each member is thus certain of receiving
in return the value of the five dollars paid, and may
also receive painting or other work OF art OF great
value.
Third--The Institution keeps an office and FREE
| PICTURE GALLERY always open well attended,
and hung with fine paintings, at 497 Broadway,
where the members in New York receive their en-
cravings, paintings, &c, and where the business
| OF the Institution is transacted.
| Fourth-The BULLETIN of the Art Union, which
has been enlarged include, in addition to the
usual Catalogue of Pictures and List of Subscribers
particular descriptions of works purchased for dis
trbution, news of interest in relation to the Fine
Arts, extracts from the correspondence of the lnsti
tuition, Wood-cut Illustrations of Paintings belong
] ing 10 the Gallery, and generally such matters Of
/ interest connected with the Art Union may be
desirable TO subscribers, will be furnished gratui-
tously TO Honorary Secretaries, and to those men,
bers who, after paying their subscriptions, shall
signify their desire to have ii forwarded TO them by
mail. To all others the price will be six cents per
number.
Report of the year lS4S.-The Engraving of :" Queen
Mary signing the Death Warrant Of Lady Jane
Grey upon steel, and measuring % inches by 1872
inches, finished early in the year, and has been
in the hands of the printer ever since its completion
Prints are being taken from it at the rate of fifty
per day, and the distribution of them will commence
about the first day of May next.
An effort will be made TO deliver them nearly
as possible in the order of the receipt of subscrp
tons. Those Honorary Secretaries, therefore, who
transmitted the earliest remttances may expect to
be first supplied; The Outline Illustrations Of Rip
Van Uinke will be ready for delivery at the same
time with the ssQueen Mary
The transactions will be published and dis
tributed at the same time with the engravings
1 The Engraving for the year ls4s-The plate of
r.. Youth" being the second picture of MIR. Coles
ceebrated series of the 'Voyage of Life, is in pro-
gress ~pder the skilfu BURN of MIR. James Smile,
VINO VIII undoubtedly make it the best large land
scaPe ehgLavh'e ever executed in this country. A
small etching OF this picture will accompany the
volume oil lransactous" about TO be published.
The Medal for the gear ls4s.-The subject of this
mccall IS the head of Colonel Trunbull, in continu-
alton oil the series of American artists
commenced by the representations of Allston and
Bronze Statuettes.-A committee was appointed
iu,n the enpediency Of proc stat1eties in 6roze
Tor distribution at the next annual meeting The
London Art Union for several years has expended
most judiciousy portion of its funds in encour
!, aging this branch OF Art. There has always beer
difficulty in this country in obtaining proper
workmen, which is the principal reason why re
duced copies in bronze have not already been mad,
artists, and which seemed peculiarly adapted u
this mode of treatment. This obstacle has now
been removed, and there are here present several
persons lately arrived from Europe, who are fully
competent 70 undertake this kind of work. Indeed
the small bust of an Indian, beautifully modelled
by BRowS, has been reproduced in bronze by one
OF these artists in a very satisfactory manner. A
resolution has accordingly been passed. in accord
ance with the recommendation Of the special com
nittee of inquiry that Mr.. BRows be commissioner
To model a statuette in bronze, twenty inches il
height, illustrative Of Indian form and character
and that twenty copies in bronze be cast for dstr
button among the members of the year ls49.
Etchings Outline for The year lS49-A set y
Outlines, similar 70 the illustrations Of Rip Var
Wrinkle, will undoubtedly be published for In,
members of the present year. The special commit
tee upon Engravings have the subject under con
sideration, but have yet made no report upon i
10 the General Board. Due notice shall be given al
soon ar that body pass decisive resolution in rela
ton 10 IT,
The list Of Paintings already purchased for dis
tribution, numbering already over one hundred, in
cludes the following, 10 which additions are nov
being made every week:
The Venetian Bride by Louis Lang; 'swis,
Scenery by ID. Huntington; 'Jephthah's Daugh
ter, by w {. Sanders; Coast Scene, New
port II. J., by ID. Huntington; Leisure Hours by
Allen Smith, jr.; The Shepherd Boy by Ed. Raab
"A Peep at the Catskill Mountain House, esusquc.
hanna Scenery from Recollection, by T. Doughty;
Cattle, by T. n. Hinckley; View in. Berkshire
Co, Mass. Clearing of after September Storm,
by Geo. lnness; View on the French Brod River
byT. A. Richards View in Pttsford, VT, by r. f.
Church; View Of Great Darlington, Berkshire Co,
Mass Mount Washington in the Distinctly
Evening Sunlight by A. H. Wenzler; Looking
seward by II G.. Halls 'Othello relating the
Story Of his Life Expectation by G.. A. Baker;
Gil Bias and the Archbishop, by y. w Edmonds;
Scene on the Junata, by r. w Whitrdge; Group
Of Peasant Children by r. Zahner; The Inter
copied Letter. by J. b. Flagg; Fruit Piece by
:. Roesen; Diamond Cove at Sunset, Portland
Me. - by Chas. r.. Beckett: THE Sailor Bow Spe-
trarch's Laura, by s s. Osgood Duck Shooters,
by W. Ranney; Landscape Composition by r.
Burford; Winter on the Passaic;' Early Autumn
Study from Nature by ID, W. G. BOutclle; Mid
deiied Falls, Ct;' 'Recollections Of Ksuterskill
Glove by X. w Hubbard Jack the Giant Killer, ,
by Alex Rutherford; View Rockland Land.
ing by James II. Csfferty; "Now or Never by
L n. Matteson; Above the Clouds at Sunrise, by
|, r f. Church; The Apple Of Discord,' by n. p
Cray The Wages of War by n. p. Gray; Anne
rcan Winter Scene by Regis Gignoux; THE Cat