The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-07-10
Mem pork advertisements.
PROSPECTUS
THE AMERICAN ART-UNION
FOR l849,
OFFICERS FOR ls4s.

OFFICERS FOR ls49.
PRospER NJ. WErmoRE, President. GEoRGE w.
AUSTEN, Treasurer. ANDREW WARSER, Core
spending Secretary. NATHANmL JARVIS, JR., Re-
cordins Secretary hd
COMMITTEE OF MANAGEmEsT.--Georg w. Aus
ten, James ii. Van Allen, Henry J. Raymond, Eras-
tus q. Benedict, William b. Deem, Prosper Nj. Wet
more, Charles II. Russell, Nathaniel Jarvis, jr.,
John T. Ridner, William J. HopPin, Abraham M
Cozzens, Marshall o. Roberts, Frederick A. Coe,
Lefierts q. Coles, Robert Kelly, Andrew Warner,
Benjamin II. Jarvis, John ii. Austen, James w.
Beekman, Philip Hone, Evert A. Duyckinck.
Executive COMMITTEE Abraham M. Cozzens,
Chairman, Andrew Warner, William J. Hoppin,
Frederick A. Coe, Benjamin H. Jarvis President
and Treasurer, er atfci0.
SupERNTEsDENT-J. William Moore.
PLAN.
Every subscriber of FIVE DOLLARS is q MEM
Der of the Art Union for the year. and is entitled 70
all its privileges.
Themoney thus obtained CATER paying necessary
expenses, is applied
ORIGINAL ENGRAVING froman American paint
ing of which the plate and copyright belong 10 the
Institution, and used solely for its benefit. OF
this Engraving every member receives copy for
every five dollars paid by him. Members entitled
to duplicates are at liberty to select from the en-
cravings of previous years. Whenever the funds
Justify it, AN EXTRA ENGRAVING OR WORK
OF ART is also furnished to every member. Every
member also receives full Annual Report of the
proceedings, &C., of the Institution.
Secondly the purchase Of PAINTINGS and
SCULPTURE, STATUETTES in Bronze, and
MEDALS, by native or resident artists. These
paintings and sculptures are publicly exhibited at
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 one share for every five dollars paid
by him. Each member is thus certain of receiving
in return the value of the five dollars paid and may
"a "A a arf nj
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 to include, in addition to the
usual Catalogue of Pictures and List of Subscribers
particular descriptions of works purchased for dis
trbuton, news of interest in relation to the Fine
Arts extracts from the correspondence of the Inst
tuition, Woodcut Illustrations of Paintings belong
ing to 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 mem
bers who, after paying their subscriptions, shall
signify their desire to have it forwarded to them by
mail. To all others the price will be six cents per
number.
Distribution Of the Engrauings, and the annual
Report of the year lS4s.-The Engraving of 'sQ,iee,,
Mary signing the Death Warrant Of Lady jane
Grey" upon steel, and measuring % inches by l53
inches, finished early in the year. and has been
in the hands of the printer 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 as nearly
possible in the order of the receipt of subscrip-
tons. Those Honorary Secretaries, therefore, who
transmitted the earliest remittances may expect to
be first supplied; The Outline Illustrations Of RIP
time with the "Queen Mary
The transactions" viii be published and dis
tributed at the same time with the engravings
The Engraving for the year lS49.-The plate of
" Youth,' being the second picture of Mr.. Coles
celebrated series Of the "Voyage Of Life" is in pro
who will undoubtedly make it the best large land
scape engraving ever executed in this country. A
small etching of this picture will accompany the
volume of transactions" about to be published.
The Medal for the year ls49.-The subject of this
medal is the head of Colonel Trumbull, in continu-
alton of the series of distinguished American artists,
commenced by the representations of Allston and
Stuart.
Bronze .Statuettes-A committee was appointed
some time since by the General Board 70 inquire
into the expcdency OF procuring statuettesn bronze
for distribution at the next annual meeting. The
London Art Union for several years has expended
most judiciously portion of its funds in encour-
aging this branch of Art. There has always been
workmen, which is the principal reason why re-
duced copies in bronze have not already been made
of several exquisite statues, modelled by our own
artists, and which seemed peculiarly adapted TO
this mode of treatment. This obstacle has
been removed, and there here present several
persons lately arrived from Europe, who fully
competent 10 undertake this kind of work. Indeed,
the small bust of an Indian, beautifully modelled
by BRowN, has been reproduced in bronze by one
Of these artists in very satisfactory manner.
resolution has accordingly been passed, in accord
ance with the recommendation of the special COM
mittcc of inquiry, that Mr.. BRowS be commissioned
to model statuette in bronze, twenty inches in
height, illustrative of Indian form and character,
and that twenty copies in bronze be cast for distri
button among the members of the year ls4s.
Etchings in Outline for the year IS49--A set Of
Outlines, similar 10 the illustrations of Rip Van
Wrinkle, will undoubtedly be published for the
members OF the present year. The special commit
tee upon Engravings have the subject under con-
sideration but have as yet made no report upon II
70 the General Board Due notice shall be given
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, TO which additions are now
being made every week:
The Venetian Bride by Louis Lang; Swiss
Scenery by ID. Huntington; 'Jephthahs Daugh-
ter by w. G. Sanders; Coast Scene, New
port, R. - by d. Huntington; Leisure Hours, by
"A Peep at the Catskill Mountain House,; 'Susque-
hanna Scenery from Recollection by t. Doughty
Cattle by r. II, Hinckley; View in Berkshire
CO., Mass. Clearing off after September Storm
by Geo Inness; View on the French Broad River
by r. A. Richards; View in Pttsford, VT, . by +. f.
Church; View of Great Darlington, Berkshire Co.,
Mass.-Mount Washington in the Dstance-by
Evening Sunlight by A. II. Wcnzer Looking
Seward by H. G. Hall; 'Othcllo relating the
Story Of his Lfe;' Expectation by G.. A. Baker;
Gil Bias and the Archbishop by =. w. Edmonds;
Scene on the Juniata, by t. w. Whitridge Group
of Peasant Children by r. Zahner; The Inter
copied Letter. by J. b. Flagg; Fruit Piece by
3 Roesen; Diamond Cove at Sunset, Portland,
Me-, by Chas. +. Beckctt The Sailor Boy" pc
trarch's Laura by $. s. Osgood; Duck Shooters
by w. Ranney; Landscape Composition, by T.
Burford; Winter ON the Passaic; Early Autumn
Study from Nature by ID. w. c. Boutclle; Mid
dlefied Falls, Ct.;' 'Rccolections of Kauterskill
Glove by r. w. Hubbard; Jack the Giant Killer
by Alex Rutherford View near Rockland Land
ing by James II. Cafcrty; "Now Never, by
II. II. Matteson; Above the Clouds at Sunrise by
+. E. Church; The Apple of Discord,' by n. p.
Cray The Wages of War, by II. p. Gray; Anne
rican Winter Scene, by Regis Gignoux; The Cat
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