The weekly Louisianian., 1874-10-24
a Representative and Champion Of
American Art Taste!
PROSPECTUS FOR 1875 - EIGHTH
YEAR.
III 'ALDINE,
The Art journal Of America.
ISSUED MONTHLY.

ISSUED MONTHLY.
IA. Magnificent Conception, Won
derfully Carried Out"
The necessity Of a popular medium 70
the representation of the productions o
our great artists, has always been recog
nlzed, and many attempts have been mad
to meet the want. The successive failure!
which. so invariably followed each attemp
10 this country TO establish an art journal
did not prove the Indifference of tn,
people Of America to the claim of higl
art. So soon as a proper appreciation O
the want and an ability to meet 1t WERE
shown, the public at once rallied with
enthusiasm to its support, and the result
was a great artistic and commercial tri-
umph-IHE ALDLNE
1HEALDINE, while issued with all the
regularity, has none Of the temporary or
timely interest characteristic of ordinary
periodicals. It's an elegant miscellany of
pure light, and graceful literature and a
collection of pictures, the rarest specimens
Of artistic skill, in black and white. AL
though each succeeding number affords a
fresh pleasure to its friends. the real value
and beauty of THE ALDINE will be mos,
appreciate after it is bound up at tho
close of the year. While other puklic.-
tidns may claim superior cn> apness, us
compared with rivals of u similar class,
THE ALDINE is a unique and original
conception-alone and unnpproachea-.
absolutely withour competition in price or
character. The possessof of complete
volume can not duplicate the quantity OF
fine paper and ensravings in any other
shape or number Of volumes for ten times
its cost and then, there is the chrome, be-
The artistic illustration of American !
scenery, original with THE ALDLNE is
IN important feature, and magnificent
plates are Of a slze more appropriate to
the satisfactory treatment of details than
~ be afforded by any inferior page.
The judici"us interspersion Of lar dscape,
figure, and animal subjects, sus-
ain an unabated interest, impossible
where the scope Of the work confines the
'rtist too closely to II single style of sub
ect. The literature of THE ALDINEis a
'ght and graceful accompaniment, worthy
II the artistic TEXTURES, with only such
disquisitions as do not interfere
With the popular interest Of the work.
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portrait, in oil ~color,, of the
IN noble dog whose picture in a former
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ody loves such a dog, and the portrait is
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tten. y
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