New-York tribune., 1866-12-06
FINE ARTS.

Mr. Geo-re 7, Fraukenstein has undertaken
work end has nearly brought 20 successful ending for
which Dis memory Us very to receive tie gratitude Of com
Ing generations Of Amecms and LEST he should think tbs
reward for bis aTduous obo atcr usabsialta we make
haste 70 ada our cordial hope that Ao win receive golden
guerdoa in his proper poon from ilc present race Of his
countrmon This guerdon is already assured 90 him If our
people can only be brought reflect the value o. contemporary
record Of the details o. great events and tie difficulty which
History abO under I'm regard 10 many important events rom
having form her Judgment upon them without sufficient da1s
of weesabshed facts Suppose landscGpopaning rs snch
had existed among The Greeks and that ome oacn in ne
had Travelled country nmoaey after The retreat
OF the Pesans under XeNos and bad taken accurate Vows OF
every place made memorable by victory or defeat so 'het every
detail of the could be followed by the reader as ne were
on Che spot and saw hin and valley plain and pass with hs
bodily eye suppose that this had been DONE ana that the PIC
had down is there any one so ann ana coio OF
heart who would not personal Indebtedness to the painter
Not less than Marathon to the Greek Gettysburg and
the Persian invasion as play compared with The tremendous
issues Of our war with the South VIC glad 70 know that
the Aneon OF future whether he writes the history Of this
war or reads it, viii suffer for lack Of pictured record Of per
sons places uy than FOR want Of written memoranda
Never great closely followed by pen and pencil
the result is that there incident OF greater or
less Importance which be found mnucy described in
some pruted book in the letter newspaper CORE
spondeBi whose locality not set down in literal truthful
those photographs which have connected the name
Of Brady indissolubly with the history Of the
Not less honoraby ana not indssouby associated
with the events terrible four years wiz be the Of
MIR Frankensen He has undertaken labor which would have
daune many very few could have been found to propose
to Themselves He resolved visit every famous battlefield
OF the recent war and make sketch OF the locality the
spot This he accomplished and the pictures to be
Published ehromohthography, believe by Richardson
Co Of tins city
Mr. Frankcnstein been kind enough SHOW the
important pictures and explain them point by
point been much surprised by the mnuenes
Of his Information the exaetness Of bis memory and the clear
with which compehends the of the separate
battles by the simple truhness OF the pictures themselves
decaey detail aud the Of important fact which
they made 10 contain
The paintings illustrate the battle Of Gettysburg were
the most interesting OF the whole SERIES but this only for
the reason that the struggle itself Of such vast importance
For the others interesting the story brings
them and the range that is covered by the whole series
so wdc hardly memorable point is LEFT uudescr0ed The
pictures themselves are excellent aud though nothing has been
sacrificed pictorial effect yet in the majority Of eases they
pleasant look a merely studies Of American scenery
The artists single however he had object but to
put down every point the scency that concerned the pacu
lar battle and to make picture after ctlre until the whole
described from beginning to end. The skrnishing
manenyerng watching and waiting it all there and put
down clearly that should think military would vel
the work with heariest oommendaton. II must give
them intense satisfaction such faithful and complete
Of history Of with which they have been
intimately concerned Again thank M Irankensein, and
venture 10 assure him beforehand Of success N winning Pu1he
Such work should be overlooked and viii not be-
Everybody viii welcome it, Every American interested IN the
and which Of viii the whole series and
et least the pictures Of certain battles while the nae OF
the artist viii be counted the most worthy Of hose who
have contributed 70 secure truthful record Of the greatest war
On history.