New-York tribune., 1867-08-26
pUOTosCULpTURE PORTRAITS.

Messrs. Geo. p. Putnam & Son are the agents
o Tho sao Of certain small statues of notable Amer
,ans which aside from the interest the fact OF thelr
boinO nortraits gives them are of very connderabie
interest AZ being the first American essays IN the
new French art of Sculpture, OF which we gaVo
nm account some months ago, when 1t was hrSt lhuo
auced here by Mcssrs. Huston Il Kurz.
These gentlemen, who deserve great credlt ioI 'no
energy and perseverance with which they nav %
pushed the introduction of this ingenious
nav now, il seems. after some months oi ""'y'He
and many obstacles overcome, be congra'u''.u -
their success for they are now ready to take
statues with the same case and raplal'y VIII
photographs Of the better sort are 'aAoh'
Their first venture has been with these h'ue
of Gen. Grant Admiral Farragnt Horace OreeIey,
and Gen. Shaer These are casts from the orlgiloi
.Iav models which models reproduce, by simple
hut ingenious machinery photographs representing
twenty-four sides of the subject so that an almost
absolute accuracy of pOrtrature is secured; indeed
so far as mechanism can do such thing, an accuracy
of portraiture truly absolute. Thus much any one
working with the machinery Of this Invention can
accomplish: that every line and fold OF the Dress
every feature of the face shall be copied Win accu-
Taev. but the same machinery IN the hands OF
artsts will produce a result far higher than ts' as
~has been done in the figure OF FnIagut tne
most successful as it seems TO us, Oh these hg-
ures The standing figure of Grant is not so good
rs the sitting figure of him, which IS most
excellent characteristic portrait 50 gOOd tld'
il must come to be- we think, the one accepted por
trait by which he will be made known over all III"
land. In looking at il, We cannot but leei mp"
tient that art had not learned this new tIlcK "ien
Lincoln was alive that we might have had statue
of him for remembrance, of whom We no" naFo
nothinp any way worthy, or toieTaDle eVeh' lnlS
sitting figure of Grant it appears Is the result Vi
bappy. 0uick-witted act of the photographer, ana
not of deliberate design. For the General dld not
ait willingly for this portrait but consented onIy
after the Union Leaugue had many times asked hlil
TO mt himself into an attitude was quite out oi ms
power the nearls approach to success ID posturng
Was what we We find in this standing figure. An am
mated debate arose to the merits of this that ana
the other pose The General meanwhile with hls clea
sits down in the chair to wait the outcome OF all TINS
discussion. Instantly the quick eye OF MI hurz
sees that now is his time; at turn of his hand open
y the cameras; anOther-they shut, and the General
is eaugbt for all time in this natural easy attitude
Mr. Putnam as Will be seen by his advertisements
has these statues at his in Broadway ana they
are also TO be had at the rooms of MeSSrs huston a
Kurz. where beside is much to interest the pubhc
French performances in the art of Photo-Sculpture
beautiful and, thus far not approached 1or excel
lence miniatures darge portraits on porcelain ana
epecimons of the newest invention in photography
the Carbon photograph" opening a new era IN the
art and likely to supersede the present process alto
geiher, before long.