Evening star., 1869-04-13
A MODEL BARsuM AND BARsux MopEL

A MODEL BARNUM AND A BARNUN MopEL
Their can be no doubt that the American peo-
pie dearly love TO be humbugged. IL we are
the 'scutsst," we are certainly the NEST gull
hble people in the world; and the worst of it is
we submit TO be diddled with our eyes wide
open In view of the 'sart" abo-lions already
fastered upon our Government buildings, It
would seem natural that a wary lookout
should be kept by the authorities 10 protect the
national capital from more mOnstrosities OF
the sort. II would seem but ordinary
prudence that policemen should be sta
toned At the different entrances 10 the
city with strict orders to seize every hummer
coming here with a ''model' But nothing of
the sort has been done. The approaches to the
city are left unprotected, ana the merciless
daubeTs ana pIssteFers enter at will. Another
renowned artist in mud has arrived. His name
Is BaiIIy-J BailIy. He proposes TO do Gen.
eral Grant in brass. on a horse, and has re-
morselessly fixed upon the southern portico o,
the Treasury Department as the site for his
brazsn incubus. Why the southern porueo of
the Treasury building should be singled out
by the terrible Bailly Is not apparent, but so 1t
Is. Dir. BaIlly comes from Europe by the
way OF Boston. He Is a Bailly Of gumption.
He does not propose to sling melted gun-metal
for nothing He will do General Grant, in
brass, on a horse, life size for Is O00; heroic
size for $4,000; ana colossal size for S15,OOO
He Is terribly in earnest, is Bailly. Already
he has effected a Judgement in General Spin
ner's room with his model, and has got some
stunning puffs in the rapers. Will be get his
$500! Very likely. We are in the way of
purchasing abortions at oig prices; and the fact
that Mr.. Bailly talks broken English will help
him amazingly with our ..cor rnoisseurs- And
his model is really such q remarkable sham
that we ought not to miss IL in our national
collection Of "art" humbugs. MANY of
our Citizens will remember having seen il
IN Calls window during the war, only il
figured then AZ model for an equestrian
statue Of Mcclellan. The "American Napo-
ieon' went under, but Mr.. Bailiy, with the in.
defatigable purpose TO put somebody In brass
and turn an honest penny. now utilizes his
Mcclellan model by substituting Gr ants head.
IL Is the identical Mcclellan model, with the
exception that the head has been changed and
the Mcclellan paunch scraped aewn a little
The Mcclellan shoulders are rather wide for
Grant. but the artist IngeniousIy gets over this
dIiic Guilty by making the head a size or two
larger Thus manipulated ii passes for a true
and undouoted likeness of Gen. Grant on his
IaVorte steed, worthy of being perpetuated
IN enduring brass at a cost of S75,0O0 more or
less.
But there Is more richness vet IN this m odeJ
II - sham built upon a sham. The original
was designed by Count D'Orsay many years
age, as competitive model for an equestrian
statue 10 be erected 10 the Duke Of Wellington
The design IL familiar 10 thousands, for il hqs
appeared for the last twenty years as a trade
mark on cigar boxes. Substitute the figure of
Mcclellan for Wellington and change the
saddle-trappings, and YOU have the Mcclellan
model Substitute the head OF Grant for
Mcclellan and you have the Grspt
model Is not e7j,OeO cheap for in
genuity Of this sort. The artist has es
sayed &c give touch of originality TO his
WORK oy throwing the weight from one front
leg TO the other OF the Wellington horse, but
having evidently not the slightest notion of
anatomy has neglected to reverse the museu
lar action of the fore-shouIders, and has fur.
ther biundered by failing TO reverse the hind
legs The same want of anatomical knowledge
Is shown BY the clumsiness of the imitation in
other respects, whereby the fine muscuIa
development of the D'Orsay horse is lost; but
these defects serve altogether to heighten our
admiration Of il as a perfect sham and our re-
spect for the cheek that demands $4,000 for it.