New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-09-30
THE Frvc AurS'

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s,.,,1~ tho Academy OF pesig n, in le0% Messis'
Ct and Crsmer, Of Berlin, are now engraving II
A. Ch,omo-I TYPOGRAPHY, and q specimen OF the
- noa,,v connleted hangs by the original pc
e. ~ which II Is. certainly, an excellent copy
The plate has yet 10 receive 'mpresAohs rom TWO
~ three additional stones when will supply the high
6ahts. whose absence gives IN appearance OF DUH
ness 20 the engraving in is present condition, bnt'
,vhcn these shal have been added, the engraving
win he an almost exact reproduction OF tho picture
and. probably, ~ perfect II specimen OK The MI u
ch,omo-lithography US has, thus fer, been pro-
Suoed.
As tor the picture itself, VIC regrct-both OF 'li'
srtists and the publics ecconnt-that u u " y.
engraved. 1t will neither advance the in'e'''
Art nor MS reputation, which Is gro"'ns ono ''''
cannot inst now afford To rnn any rlsHs' ''on''
the picture was very much admired when II was
ars, exhibited. but not only has the pnphe grown
siuce then-.ho artist himself has also ilpro''"'
aud nothing il gained By giving permanent form (
90 works which have been OutgIoNn by eaVhhcing
taste and increasing knowledge. We pass by iof
AZ ,ra.ent the want Of truth in the picture, ana
dismiss il with protest against the architecture
which makes SO large and important feature IN H.
Man Tho one he has chosen, without much trouble.
I, is plain 20 see, however, that nc had no Mouel
ar all, bu. constructed this cdiicS ont Of his moran
consciousness as the other German did has eanioi'
II violates the laws Of good building. II is thing
cf slreds aud patches, with three statues oi 'he
Virein where one would have been enough, and sii
three, bad " reveals not onlya want OF feeling ior
what is beautiful and vital in architecture (which
We regret but also, an ignorance OF simple ler'p'c
tive drawing which surprises us. Scarcely any par
ut it is correctly drawn, but the incoreo'ne o Inc
whole is typhed by that OF the little eorte over the
sshls of the door, weeks practice in perspective
drawing ought 10 hayo enabled him TO draw this
urly. It's all awry. But tie engra7er, we see,
ims copied ii---as he was perhaps, bound TO do
With Chinese, OF shell We say with German se-
curacyl
--Gustave Schauer OF Berlin, is publishing Solec
sicns in photographs, from the works Of the most'
ssmous painters. The different examples, neatly
mounted on card boarl, are arranged in portfolios,
each bearing the name Of the master 20 whom II is
devoted Two of the most valuable are the "Ddrer
Album" and the ivan Eyck Album" the first
contains photographs from theeAgrayings Of Albert
Direr and includes TWO from the very boaGtI!n
prints by Reinde after his celebrated paintings OF
ahe Apostles and Evsngelists, commonly called
''1ho Four Temperamcnts" The photographs are
taken nom his most celebrated ougravings-anj
from the finest impressions such as arc only 10 be
found, in these days 10 the collection # amateurs,
end in great public institutions such as the British
Museum and the French Royal Library. For III
purposes Of study aud information, theeo photo
grsphie copies fully equal % the original prints.
While the cost is such 10 place them within the
Reach Of moderate purses. The Van Eyek Album
contains complete set of photographs OF the
world-famous Aitar-piece at Client, whose scat
sered parts now ornament tho collections If
Brussels and Berlin, only i've remaining
an the plaoe-the church Of ST. Bayo in Ghent-
which once boosted the possession OF the entire
treasure. Portions of this Altsr-Piece once seo \
become treasures of the memory. The leaves con
tanning the Group Of Singing Angels" ana ths
other with the " Orgsn-Playing Angel and her At
ts,dant Choir" the exquisitely delicate eunbodi
mont of tho Virgin adding her voice the heavenly
sorg a. she sis en,hroacd and crowned the crown
;,sef-a mere detail, bu, designed in tae richly
lavish ina native spirit Of the pure Romance poets
ius, such crown as our Chaucer would have givel
her If he had attempted to describe the Queen 0
,hey are oil interesting and espccally--seeing tbs
th.grea. AltarPieceis now hopelessly separated an
scst,ered--is il interesting (, study il restored
ITS original form, and in so pe- Get fashion. "
wish however, that The publishers had been w.llin
20 give the photographs TO Tho public, vitho,
touching them up" with India ink. 1t serious
detrscis from thsr value rs record, without q,
ding anything to their aereeableness as mere p.
lures which can for the unpleasantness offee
ing that the masters work has been meddled with.
MFR. Knoedler, successor 70 Goup e. CO., be
returned from Europe, aud brought with him man
interesting additions 20 his already valuable coeC
lion Of photographs. Among Others, We have el
Amined with pleasure the " Shakespeare Album
containing all the characters in costume az repre-
sented at the Shakespeare Festival, celebrated Apr
70, 1864, By the Malkasten Society of Artists q
Dusseldorf Photographed and published by @. :
A. Overlook az Dusseldorf" These very clear an
beautiful photographs are interesting in them
sel7os; they show perfection in the art whic
has never, % yet, been reached with us
The desire TO have cheap things father than soot
things, is doing the seine mischief here in photo
graphers' Laboratories that il is in Artists studios
smschief which we feel the more seDsbly becaus
thorc are 30 few, So almost none, who are stron.
enough ~ stand firm ard resist the popular pres
sure. But, of course, the chief interest OF theS'
photographs les in what they represent. Wloreve
these ingenious gentlemen have undertaken TO re
present the historical characters in Shakespeare,
phys, they have done 50 with the traditional Ger
man accuracy an aceuracy which in snch rnsftars