Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1868-06-12

Darians-especially the egotistical hea-
then of "Neyawk may say, Boston is
a city set on hill, or, Ito be more exact,
on several hills that cannot be hid; one
whose light Eliminates the thick Cim-
merriam darkness of Grim Night elsewhere.
We have the best libraries, public and
private,-the best galleries, and the best
people generally, in the Western World,
not to speak Of the Pagans Of Europe,
Asia, or the continent of the wool-clad
craniums. .F
Even New York importers admit that
there are more engravings and chromos
sent to Boston in proportion to its popu-
lation, than to any other American COM
munity that there are more works of art
sold here and elsewhere and that we pro-
duce more and better chromos than all
the rest of America put together.
i Mr. L. A. Elliot has larger and more
varied stock of engravings, foreign chro-
mos, oil prints and Autographs, than any
other dealer ON the continent; and there
are several houses in Boston, every one
of which make larger sales to-day than
the combined sales of all our art stores
, that existed ten years ago. The popular
demand for engravings and other works
of art is constantly increasing; and the
popular taste improves even faster than
the increase of the trade A dozen years
ago, there was not single large stock of
engravings in Boston. Most of the for
eign engravings that found their way
here came from the New York houses.
Chromos we're unknown To-day we
have the largest chromo-lithographic es-
tablishment in the world; and, within
the last two months there have been inn
ported ten thousand foreign ''prints," in
cluding in this term the finest line en-
cravings, the best English chromos, and
LIE Blond's famous "oil prints" of
which he has the exclusive agency for
America. He has in his portfolios at
least five thousand different subjects,
from costly Landseer or Raphael to
, genre picture for the million.
During the Last FIVE or six years, chro-
mos have been steadily gaining on en-
, cravings, which once almost monopo-
lized our importations. The revival of
/ the love for colors, elsewhere and in so
many forms exhibited, is especially
, shown in the fact tlsat thn-r no as roanu
foreign chromos as foreign engravings
sold in this country to-day. 1t may in
terest many of our readers to know the
opinion of large dealer on European
chromos, and we reprint from our notes
of conversation with Mr.. Elliot.
English Chromos are seldom printed
to produce an oil effect They are in
tended to represent water color paintings !;
, and they are generally superior to their
European rivals. There is delicacy in
their finish and tone that neither the
! Germans nor Italians attain. They have
succeeded in reproducing with marvellous
accuracy, both the drawing and coloring
of such masters as Turner, Rowbotham,
Richardson, Harding, Pryne, Stanfeld,
Nesmyth, and the Penleys. The largest
sale of an English chrome in the Boston
market is that of "Windsor Castle"
after J. B. Pryne, in hazy day, which
is remarkable for its atmospheric effect
e and delicate coloring. Hundreds of cop
les are sold yearly. "Lake Maggiore,"
and the Weatherhorn," after T. M.
| Richardson, have also had large sale,
!. and are both mastery specimens of the
r new art. Mr.. Elliot showed US some
fifteen or twenty of Turner's master
peices, which have been reproduced in
# chrome among them that marvellous
$ mass of splendid coloring, "The old
S Temerare," and his Bacchus and Ar
l. iadne," and Ulysses deriding Polypus. +"
., Turner has also been reproduced in en-
a cravings; but in neither form are his
r pictures so popular in our market as are
: those of Richardson and the Penloys.
: The Lock Vennaehar," after Penley,
u is wonderful study of the skillful blend.
]. ings of its colors. We saw also ten
n American landscapes, after Cropsey, rep
v resenting different varieties of season and
e of scenery. These are from the famous
is house of. Moore, Mcqueen & Co., tht
t largest English chrome publishers. Thi'
3 set rank next in public favorto "Wind
y sor Castle;" and the plate entitled eau
IS tumn on the Delaware is the most pop
v ular of the series.
IS German Chromos more nearly resem
'e bic oil paintings than the English pub
h locations; and, although they do not sue
h ceed in getting the fibres of the canvas
to as Prang does, they have the general ef
re feet of oil. As class, they are inferior
er to the English; they are heavier in tom
Of and more mechanical; yet the popula
taste rather runs in their favor an,