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


1t would take more space than We have
to spare to speak of the English engrs.
wings. Here are copies of all the great
artists, done in the thorough and MASTER
ly manner of the English engravers.
One, especially, is deserving of honora.
BILE mention "The Midsummer Nights
Dream" which is regarded by connois-
seurs as the finest mezzotint ever made.
Landseer is the most popular English
artist in our market. Hundreds of his
Challenge" and Sanctuary" are sold
every year. Herring comes next. His
English Farmyard" and English
Homestead have steady sale still, al
though they have had large sale in the
years past Turner ranks next to Thom-
as Brooks-a fact due mainly to thegreat-
er popularity of the subjects of the lesser
painter. There are imported annually
about $4,000 worth (cost price) of En-
glish engravings and chromas for this
market.
The Germans as engravers are happi-
er in their genre pictures than all other
nations; and, Frere excepted, they are
not equaled by even individual artists.
The Germans, in fact, are the best story
tellers for children, whether by the pen
or pencil. In Boston portfolios, there is
large collection of these genre subjects,
by Meyer Won Bremen, Meyerheim, and
others, which will well repay loving
study. They are chiefly in mezzotint.
1t is significant that, while chromos are
now neck to neck with engravings, the
sale of engravings is larger than ever
before-the demand for chromos having
supplemented, and not injured, the trade
in prints. They are allies, not rivals.
Few Americans have any just concep-
ton of the perfection to which litho-
graphy has been carried in Europe. We
have been long accustomed to apprentice
daubs in this style of work, that it is gen.
orally believed that lithography is inca
pable of reproducing with artistic spirit,
any really exquisite designs. But any
one who examines portfolios of the
Dresden Gallery Autographs" "The
Vienna Gallery" and The Landscapes
of Calame," will be thoroughly convinc-
ed that this opinion is an error. They
are far superior to the common run Of
steel line engravings.
One of the most curious collections Of
cheap pictures in Boston portfolios are
the "Oil Prints" of LIE Blond. They
are little chromos engraved on copper,
But the process. Of making them is Sc
cret. There are some thirty of these
bright bits of color. Each print is Sx9A
inches, oval in form, and some of them
might be mistaken for paintings. There
have been sold, within two years, 10000
copies of these prints. LIE Blond is an
Englishman, who succeeded to the busi-
ness of his brother, the second inventor
of this process-for the original inventor
was Mr.. Baxter, whose discovery is
supposed to have died with him.
The large steel engraving of Bunyans
Pilgrims Progress" group of Wig
nettes formed together in allegorical
harmony-from the designs of Hammat
Billings, is probably familiar to all our
readers, as it is often seen in the parlors
of church-going people. The picture cost
$4,000 to produce, and about 5000 COPS
les of it have been sold. ~
The latest publications are two female
figures, by Miss A. r. Sawyer, done in
stipple and line-one entitled " The Bet
ter Land" the other, which is Just out
and sold exclusively by subscription, en-
titled "The Vale of Peace" which is
dedicated to William Cullen Bryant,
equally distinguished as poet and as
friend of struggling artists and of Amer
lean art. The figure is designed to re-
feet the repose attained after spiritual
struggles counterpart to the country
Beulah of the Pilgrims Progress.
"Beracick," IN Boston Daily Advertiser.
CURIOUS CAsE.-According to the Min