New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-06-28


the ghostly helmet made in the MYSTERIES OF Idopno'
Mr Crawford took into another raon one OF three Of
the largest Italian proportions forming hiaghhcen'
studio 10 how us his design FOR the great monument to
Washington with the boot part Of which have been
making so free Nothing but The bold youthful freshness
for which American genius IN sculpture Is renaKsee,
could ever have conceived supendous an undertaking,
10 be executed solely by one man The monument l. 10 he
fifty feet high suInouued b. the colossal equestrian
statue Of Washington. Below on different pedestas pro-
;ectnO from the center stand four gigantic statues Of pat,
riots endeaed the recollection Of Ergnians a. having
all been born their province aud az being connected
With the liberation Of America from English rule Henry
il a magnificent specimen of gge-earnes. yehe
enthusiastic. with expression and
stretched i'll the very act apparently Of addressing mnl-
t.ude Beside Henry stands the grand statue Of Jefferson.
Offering admirable contrast, raDi in deep thought.
These two figures already bronze Munich,
and be placed pedestal OF peculiarly beautiful
kind Of American granite The whole monument Is % he
erected at Richmond the capital OF Virginia.
Below the iOnr statues steps broken at the angles by
buesses, crowned by grand looking eagles win hali'
spread wings Upon the central pedestal under Washing
ton are the arms Of Virginia, which struck me Gs very
suggestive Between two figures of Justice ana
Mercy stands vailed form representing ETERNITY
which Mr.. Crawford has left vague and underlined II
thought il best said he, Ito leave that figure somewhat
unfinished in long lines leaving the Imagination to fiji up
the Deficiencies and form for itself being under the val
- Eternity cannot be defined
Mr.. Crawford made the design for this great work in
only six weeks having his attention accidentally called TO
the subject By advertisement he in the newspaper
for models, While he was las; III America.
We now turned from this gigantic work. which the
poets to complete in four more to lighter specimens OF his
power. lie is particularly successful in his chireB-we
saw a pair, the Happy and the Unhappy Child the
first sweet little round smiling creature, looking out
with laughing eyes full of innocent fun. little tuDc
falls the hips in simple folds caught up with both her
hands .he dances forward the hair arranged in heavy
natural locks is just raised, though she passing
through the wind. The other child, sad and melancholy
in aspect, holds broken tambourine.
But the most beautiful nfanle group saw here was
that Of 'The Children in the Wood subject which Mr..
Crawford has rendered with coDsumnae skill ana true
feeling for nature. The little creatures are lying on
block of marble dotted with leave, while from behind
the birds approach who to prepare their windngheet
The gr is the Younger of the two loose drapcry covers
her pretty form the boy is somewhat thinner ana taller
plated ba fails loosely down wrapt IN the deep heavy
unbor Of unsus ecting childhood. His eyes too, are
panion ar though shield her from all HARM His hair
mixes with hers wavy cu and he dressed IN the IAN
ciu old English costume with which the mind associates
their pathetic story Words cannot describe the touching
pahos of those sleeping children ! was glad to turn
away the lifeike expression too painful even the
little shoes land what mother resist the charm there's
about childs little shoe p full Of reality. One
longed to touch them, to the sweet children from
their fatal slumbe TO drive away the onlnous birds creep
ing up the stone, bearing the sad faded leaves
MOZIER.
Mr. Mozer an American gentleman of fortune, whose
whole life voluntarily devoted TO the arts must not be
forgotten among the scuptors OF Rome. My particular
object of curiosity in visiting his studio was marble
statue Of Pocahonta Just completed and very charming
work found it TO be; full of deep sentiment and unai,
eced purity with striking originality as to costume ana
treatment She the feather tune common among
the Indians corone formed of two large simple feathers
encirces her head which bent down in contemplation
over a which she holds in one hand while with
the other she resirans wild deer lying at her feet en-
blematic both of the chase and of her own untamed
condition. =,
II is the period of her conversion which Mr.. Mozer has
chosen She is in deep meditation over the holy symbol
presented TO her by her beloved but softer thoughts have
stolen her mind and the touching look OF her sim
pie vet noble face expresses that her medations nave
from he 10 II.
CHAPMAN.
Mr. Chal man. an American painter, has great merit,
and most suggestive poetic fancy much admired some
views bv him the Campagna, that cxhausess held Tor
the pencil with its hourly changes of color and shade as
the brilliant clouds sail across it. or the mountains Hing
down their mighty shadows IN the early morns or a.
man studio is bis Hager and lshmael, an Old su'gect
treated in Il manner Hager pale, exhausted ana
faint casts up her eyes agony 10 ease vnnGv
bundle of clothes wrapped up in corner OF the picture
ard taking pert in the action looks angriy with wid
dark ewes nj his sinking mother, urging her TO proceed
The composition is good and the colorng excellent There
are also series of groups of the Twelve Seasons III
MIR Cbapman's studio three figures in each picture, full
of graceful symbols and appropriate accessores March
for example being dark vailed beauty, whlle, BESIDE
her ocund Auri shelters in her delicate May bearing
a lap full of flowers
In the Piazza Barberni that home Of naturaized Ro-
man scuptors small studio belonging 10 an American,
but little known here of the name OF Rogers and this
lads me parenheticay to remark the number of ris
ing American artists at present in Rome proving now
ra5dy that great nation ancng inhe refined
and elegant tastes as well as III the larger pOc strides
toward excellence and greatness
| was delighted with Mr. Rogers productions and
cannot but augur for him brilliant future when his talent
shall become better known and appreciated lie showed
me a charming little of boy, esize, dressed in
cloak and boots edged with fur, skating on the ice the
surface of which is rendered capally by high polish on
the marble. He calls it The Iruant, for the boy is
supposed TO have fallen into temptation on his way to
school ard has thrown down his books under the frozen
I'll of n free hung with clcles Near this figure Is
"Cnnd' who with a weeping face Is breaking ms bow.
Tb;s stntue Mr. Rogers has named Love in the Nine.
teenth Century Cupid having eiunted Ills arro"
.,tLe ALMIGHTY dollar" lying beside him.
AN o,;sts tbev saw have an epidemic which, like the
measles visits them invariably early or late in their career
il is the Ruth Fever from which Mr. Rogers happened 70
"pn,b Cleaning" not remarkably different from lis
ountI,s fellows 10 be found in the studios oil an naos
Rn+ the principal work which Mr. Rogers Is engaged
and to which he looks for es'abshi. 'a rent
is group that when finished cannot but command grgna
",iSnsc The subject is: 1.-TWO Indians Man ana
Woman" she seated on his knee, while ne extTac,s
thorn from her foot Nothing can be more graceful ,a
chr attitudes or more picturesque than Inc ue,ais vi
,h;r Costume The mans head is ornanented WIN
atbers and his fine prominent features ana hh cnccA
Lones sre rs much casscsed as possible 10 De consst'
xrb trutb 70 nature His look is nll OF love anu P!,
w. ooreflv touches the delicate foot resting IN MS
hand Around him large bearskn cast. Mocasshs
cover his feet and he hes near MN nc, dni;c.,ay
ure is as admirable in different ways1i' aI ~ =; e
moIeJ. there is a lfe-lke look about her whoh very
cnn,,,;rs, Her brows are encirced with ieFe pea,s
MIXED at the back of the head with small ieaIct IT, We
hair cut rather short III 'front.' amer me "snlon ~ ~
women of the present day. In her iace the ihuah
blended with great beauty, and with quiet "1!r
look directed toward the chief, when Is very "
pretty She wears feather tune ana the moo r,
has taken off lies on the ground beside her. inoio
soeb;n very ike Genius in the conception oi TINS group
which should il ever reach London, by no means m m
probable event will excite am sure grea anu and
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