The New York herald., 1873-10-24
Clinton Hall.

Yesterday we alluded to a quantity of exquisitely
manufactured furniture view at Clinton Hall and
the Leavitt Art Gallery. The furniture is from the
house, at Norwalk, Conn.,, of the late LIE Grand
Lockwood, and is one of the most magnificent ex-
hiDitions Of the kind ever made In this country.
There are bedsteads OF polished birdseye maple,
inlaid with ebony and gilt, with bronze medalions
and cretonne canopies; bedsteads OF cherry. rose
and tulip wood, cauopied with lavender satin
and blue velvet and with Cluny lace curtains,
and ash, walnut and gilt bedsteads, with polished
panels and salmon-colored silk reps canopy.
large black walnut and steel divan, with looking
glass and canopy, is hung with blue rep and plush
wnut and an steel asse Te me' curtains are
exceedingly handsome and unique. They are OF
embroidered silk. interlined, trimmed with pom
ceau, lined With marcelllne, and with Fatn b0r-
ders, loops and centre tassels. Besides these cur
tains there are others Of orange worsted, tissue
morugne, lavender satin, steel drab, silk rep and
white ground lampas satin. The chairs and sofas
include every variety under heaven. One sofa OF
oak, tnlaid with ebony, gilt, and covered with
Chinese silk, vies with richly covered Louis XIII.
parlor arm chair, with painted heads arms and top
ornaments rich white and gold carved vai arm arm
| gilt centre divan, with four rich arms and centre
pedestal! tufted and carved. in lavender satin and
trimmed with purple velvet very rich and
unique piece OF furniture is fancy stuffed back
sewing chair, with swans heads, covered with
needlework. Dtvans, reception chairs, writing
desks, bookcases French escritoires, card tables,
ardinieres dressing tables, cabinets flower stands
abound. The carpets are Aubusson, Administer
Moquette. Wilton and Brussels. In fact, there is
prlnceiy in its beauty and Of high artistc merit.
whether the depression felt In business circles
will affect the sale remains to be seem but Il is
securing magnificent articles OF this description at
reasonable prices occurs only once In o great
while and therefore is not likely TO be altogether
Hail and the Art Gallery till next thursday and
Friday, when the sales will take place. s'..G8
Photographs At the American Institute
eW Fair. 4N-
AS whole the art gallery at the American Insti-
tute Fair now being held at the Rink, Sixty-third
street and Third avenue is not remarkable for
prilliancy. 1t consists mainly OF Photographic
views among which we DO not find all OF our princt-
pal photographers represented. Throughout the
various little compartments devoted to this branch
Of art, an air OF respectable medocrity reigns, and
not more than two or three photographers Of the
whole number seem entitled to any particular men,
tion. Mr.. Howell OF No. s67 Broadway, has good
collection. but has been content to concentrate
his attractions in large pastel portrait of MISS
Clara Norris the actress. Miss Morris is presented
IN character-that Of Madelein Morel-and the pas
tel is remarkable both for its truth OF portraiture
and its elaboration OF technique.
A large and very interesting display is made by
G. D. Fredrcks & Co., OF No. 5s7 Broadway 1t Is
enriched by number OF portraits in crayon,
grapher in the city. Conspicuous among these is
portrait OF Miss Nellie Grant. Miss Grant is given
with her arms folded, resting against the back OF q
may inhere In a person without a capabity for
being easily introduced to the same extent In q
portrait. From the study OF this and other works
OF the same character among the Fredrcks photo
graphs, IT is evident that n his establishments this
business OF prescribing the poses AID governing
the attitudes Of stters Is confded to hands and
eyes Of long experience, lss,ae, and Is trans
intelligence. There are no two classes Of
people who have greater natural distaste for
each other than those who go to have their IKE.
nesses taken and those with whom sitters are
brought into immediate contact; for the sitter is
usually absolutely ignorant OF what is required or
him in order that q likeness may be produced that
bance and reject credit upon the technical work.
manship Of the establishments. And for the most
part the autocrats OF the camera those supreme
disposers OF costumes ana countenances, have no
peculiar felicity for their business. and nave nor
so much fitted as stumbled into t. From the awk.
ward and ugubrous effects OF this rule the crayons
and photographs OF which we have just been speak.
ing are slnguary exempt and we see happy
blending Of the feeling OF the artist with the accr-
racy OF the technicist In almost all the varieties in
which portraits OF celebrated Characters are
shrewdly gleam beneath the spectacles OF benjamin.
FRANKLIN and 4. X. Collins is outooking obstinate
and brusque. The dlsputattous and questioning
slightly querulous and high.strung Dr. Adams
George w. Masteu, grim as fate and alert as FER
ret, Is enshrined In one corner and DR.. Francis.
made up, is in another. In the midst OF these +
stern-featured men beams the c0untenance OF Miss
Jennie Lee, q pinch Of s0ubrette dropped among
the more solid comestbles. In all New York there
raise their business into an art and to coordinate
what is mechanical in their processes with feel
ing for beauty and an appreciation OF the moral
and mental organism Of sitters FredriCks is one
OF these few. and his present QrOupin0 ga a. tho