The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1870-07-09
A Day in an Artists Establishment.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


To tie Wheeling AHteEti0tno'r:
Genius often mApilests Itself in llerceiY.
! ing ard faint apparently ftle md 0byi.
ous things, but which every body else had
overlooked, aud thereby securing very
Iafge n nils. This remark Is Illustrated
in the case of Chrome pictures, which
Prang & Co., Of Boston, Mass, have
brought TO such perfection. am not
aware that there is single process In
romo.lithography that has not been un-
derstood by photographic artists for years,
And yet, the results obtained come almost
infinitely short Of the present Chrome,
which Is scarcely inferior to the best paint.
ings, and every way and lmnleasuably
superior 10 poor ones. 4bN8
The gist Of the whole thing consists in
combining many lithographic impressions
in one picture. ! That Isl the whole Of it.
In some of Prang's Chromos, the picture
receives upwards Of forty different and
separate Impressions 1n.h0ne Of them
arc the impressions less than fii(een.
To originate and combine the
different lines and colorS which make
up the picture, requires genius
scarcely, II at all, inferior 10 that
involved in good painting. But when
these are once originated and com.
bined on the different stones, an indef-
mite number of impressions, Of equal ex.
cellcnce, may be taken thereirom by an
ordinary workman. And it Is this that
cheapens them; until the finest pictures
arc within the reach of the poorest poo
Die. We saw in Mr.. Prangs studio so
exact q reproduction in chrome Of
four hundred dollar oil painting, that at
the distance Of ten feet the original,
while placed side by side with the chro.
mo, could not BIO distinguished from 1t,
and this superb chrome can be had for
only fifteen dollars. a,.. ~
This astounding result Is only equalled
by the original discovery Of the art Of
printing. What printing Is 70 the world
Of letters, chrome TYPOGRAPHY IS to the
world of art The poorest in the land
can now alorn their cottages with the
finest creations Of genius. We accept
chrome TYPOGRAPHY as practical educa-
tor, that will do more than all other To-
luences combined have ever done to lit
the world up to q higher taste and finer
culture. ~.
Luis Prang, like most other geniuses,
began life a poor boy. Like many another,
too, he did not at first find what he was
good for. He tried various occupations
70 find himself unsuccessful in them all
like Grant trying 70 be real estate agent
or leather.dealer. At length he found
his mission, and, like Grant, too, in 1t he
is now successfully fighting it out on this ii
line. E.+E
He has already built up prosperous
business, growing rapidly in importance
\ and popular favor. BE has erected
spacions brick block in Roxbury in the
enyirOns OF Boston, where he carries on
the various details Of his business from
the painting even Of some Of the copies for
his chromos, through all the details Of
drawing on the stone and the tempering
OF cOlorS, and the various impressions Of
press work, to the final finishing touches,
and the mounting on canvass or card
board and fitting up in frames.
Though he has not either invented or
discovered much that is absolutely new In
itself, yet his master use Of well known
details, when no other eye had discovered
even glimmering Of such transcendent
use, marks him both as master genius and
one Of the worlds greatest benetactors
Among the more noticeable Of his pic
lures, is one entitled the "BOyhood Of
Lincoln" A boy is sitting with his back
to the fire in an old-fashioned six:foot fire
place, intcntly studying his book, by the
reflection on It's pages Of the rudy fire
light from the huge fireplace. Around,
are the Accomplishments OF an old.tme
settlers cabin, Indicating hard times, hard
work, and in this boy, hard and alto
gether unusual determination to cultivate
his powers and to become strong and In.
fluential man. This picture-nOt, how.
ever, for any political significance
ought to be hung up every school room,
as potent incentive to every boy and girl
to climb up the ladder Of power and fame,
by such means, whatever they may be, as
laws around him and within his reach, in
stead Of whining or despairing because
fortune may not have favored him as
much as she has some others.
It IS tleGiSe we make Of our surround.
ings, almost infinitely more than their own
inherent character, that makes men and
women Of us, or the reverse. Whoever
rightly and persistently uses such adyan'
tages as he has-nO matter how few or
poor-can and will grow up to an emo:
bled manhood; while the perverted or
listless use Of no matter how great advan.
tages, will leave US such dwarts or mon.
sters that nature may wei be ashamed oil
us A D. W.