Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1869-02-23

thin paper, may not ''show through" In
newspaper work this is of less Importance,
and often is not attended to with any spe-
cial care. But in chromo-lithography the
difference of hair's-breadth would spoil
picture; for it would hopelessly mix up
the colors.
After the chrome has passed through
the press, it is embossed and vanished,
and then put up for the market. These
final processes are for the purpose of break
ing the glossy light, and of softening the
hard outlines which the picture receives
from the stone, which imparts to it the re-
scmblanoe Of a painting on canvas.
Mr.. Prang began his business in the
humblest way, but has rapidly increased
his establishment, until he employs fifty
workmen,-nearly all of them artists and
artisans Of the most skillful class, and
is preparing to move into large building
at Roxbury. He uses eighteen presses
and his sales are enormous. His catalogue
now embraces a large number Of Album
Cards, about seventy sets of twelve in
each set; beautiful series of illuminated
"Beatitudess" and "Scriptural Notices"
an endless list of our great men, and Of
men not so great after all; of juveniles
notably, a profusely illustrated edition Of
| "Old Mother Hubbard !" and of half chro-
'.mos and chromos proper. Tait's "Chick-
ens,' " Ducklings," and equals" were
the first chromos that met an instant and
wide recognition. Nineteen thousand cop
les of the ''Chickens" alone we're sold.-
Brichers early Autumn on Esopus Creek
is one Of the best chromos ever made on a
small SCALE The Bull6nch " and the
"Linnet" (after Cruikshank) are admira-
bic. There are other chromos which are
less successful; and one or two that arc
not ooeOo7ef,.l at all, , but tl,ey os,o .noarly
all excellent copies of the originals, with
which the defects must be charged.
The chromos of Brichcr's paintings are
really wonderfully accurate.
Mr.. Prang's masterpiece, however, is
not yet published, although it is nearly
ready for the market. 1t entirely sur.
passes all his previous efforts. 1t is Cor
reggio's "MAGpALENA," and can hardly
fail, we think, to command a quick sale
and hearty recognition.
Like every modern discovery, chrome.
lithography has its partisans and detrac.
tors,-those who claim for it perhaps i'm.
possible capabilities, and those who regard
it as mere handicraft, which no skill can
ever elevate into the dignity of an art
We do not care to enter into these dis.
putes. Whether an art or handcraft,
chromo-lithography certainly re-produces
charming little pictures vastly superior tc
any colored plates that we have had be.
fore and il il. at least clearly ert;tlod :,
be REGARDED as means Of educotinc The
popular taste. and thereby raising tbe NAT
| ural ideal of art
A corresnondent locking ot chrome,
from this point of view tbus indicates Il,
NAV be somewbot e,,fhrs;ost;coIlv, tbo;,
nossible influenza on tho cultrro of tb,
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