Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-01-22
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PROSPECTUS FOE 1874 SEVENTH YEAR
TIE -lfsIine,
An illustrated hos.th'y Jouinnt, universal
~ admitted iite ita..lisomest Periodical
in the sort@. "A tssprcsgntltsa &c
ttft4 tiutmpi0n of AMertcua
Taste.
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Fha ALDiNE, wile issued With all the regularity,
HAS none Ct the tanprary tisiey interest charac-
eerlstc OF ordinary periodicals. 1t is eleg mis-
c,llany Of pure light aud sra:sfn itera ture and
coection of pictures the specimens artistic
skill in black and white. Although each succeeding
number affords fresh pleasure it's friends the rea
value OF the Aldine viii be most appreciated after
his been bound at the close of the year. While other
publications may claim superior cheapness as com.
pared with rivals of similar GLASS; The Aldine is
unique AID original conceptioI-alone and unap.
proached-absoutely without competition in price .,
Ca acter. The possessor of complete volume can
no. duplicate the quantity OF fine paper and engrav-
ings in any other shape number of volumes for ten
ines its COST aud taen there the chronos be.
SIZES.
Art DEPARTMENT, Is
The illustrations Tor The Aldine have won world.
wide reputation, and in the art Europeit
an admitted fact that its wood cuts examples
the highest perfection ever attained The common
prejudice in favor of steel plates is rapidly yield
ing to educated and discrimina ting taste
which recognizes the advantages superior artistic
qailty with greater facility production. The wood
oats of Tie Aldine all the decacy and eabo-
rte finish of the most costly steel plate while they
ford better rendering of the artists original
TO fully realize the wonderful work which The Al
dne is doing for the of art culture in America
IT. only necessary to consider the cost to the people
OF any other decent representations of the productions
OF great painters.
IN addition designs by the members Of the Ma.
uonal academy, and other noted An erican artists
The Adine viii reproduce examples of the best fer
e9n masters. selected with ayiew the highest arts
tie aud greatest general interest Thus The
subscriber fhe Aidine will at rifiiag cost eiioy
III his own home tue pleasures and filming influences
of true art
The quarterly tinted plates 1874 will be Thomas
Moran and J. W. Woodward.
The Christmas issue for 1871 will contain secial de-
slgus appropriate to thu n, by st artists
and will surpass in attraction any of its pred
ecessors. ISIS
Premium for 1874
Every subs srber to III Adine for the year 1874 vii
receive pair of chronos The original pictures were
painsed IN Ill for th Publishers If the Adine by
Tomas Moran, whose great Colorado picture was
purchased by ongress for ten thousand dollars The
subjects were chosen to represent ''The East and
The vest" One is view In the White Mountains,
IN New Hampshire, and the other gives the cliffs of
Green River Wyoming Territory. The difference in
the nature of the themselves pleasing con-
trast, aud affords good display of the 'sts scope
aud eOioring. The chrol.us are each worked from
thirty distinct plates, and in size IL is and 3D.
pearance fac-similes of the originals The presents
ton of worthy example CT Americas greatest land
scape painter to the subscriber of the Adine was
bold but happy idea, and it's successful realization is
attested by the following estm0nia over the sigma
ture of Mr.. Moran himself:
NEWARK, \. J., sept Goth, 1873
Messrs. JAMES SUTTON & Co.
Gentlemen-I am delighted with the pro offs in colo
OF your chromos. They wonderfully successful
representations by mechanical process ofthe origina
paintings. Very respectfully,
tsigned9 THos MORAN.
These chromos arc in every sense American. They
are by an original American process with material
American manufacture, from designs of American
scenery by an American painter and presented the
subscribers of the first successful American Art Jour
nal If no better because of ali this they will certain
ly possess an interest foreign production can in
spire, and neither they any the by reason
of peculiar facilities of productirn they cost the pub-
fishers only rie while equal in every respect 20 9TH
er ehromos that are sold sngly for double tn sub
scrlptlon price of the Aldine. Persons of taste will
prize these pictures for thrmseves-not for the price
they did or did not cost and will appreciate the enter
prise that renders their distribution possible
If any subscriber should indicate preference for
figure subject, the publishers win send Thoughts
OF Home new and beautiful chrome, IA 20 inch
es, representing little Italian exile whose speak ing
eyes betray the longing of his heart