The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-02-07
Prospectus for 1s74-Seventh Year.
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mitted to be the handsomest periodical
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and champion of Ameri.
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In addition to designs by the members of the
National Academy, and other noted American
artists, THE ALDINE will reproduce examples
of the best foreign masters, selected with a view
to the highest artistic success and greatest gem
eral interest. Thus the subscriber to THE
ALDINE aill, at trifing cost, enjoy in his
own homo the pleasures and refining influences
of true art.
The quarterly tinted plates for 1874 will be
by Thos. Moran and j. d. Woodward.
The Christmas issue for 1874 will contain
special designs appropriate to the season, by our
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wear 1s74 will receive a nair Of chromos. The
fishers of THE ALDINE, by Thomas Moran,
whose great Colorado picture was purchased by
Congress for ten thousand dollars. The subjects
were chosen to represent "The East" and "The
West" One is view in The White Mountains,
New Hampshire the other gives The Cliffs Of
Green River, Wyoming Territory. The differ
ence in the nature of the scenes themselves is a
pleasing contrast, and affords good display
of the artists scope and coloring. The chromos
are each worked from thirty distinct plates, and
are in size Q2 x l6) and appearance exact fac
SMILES OF the originals. Inc presentation OF q
worthy example OF Americas greatest landscape
painter to the SUBSCRIBERS OF THE ALDlNE was
noio put peculiarly halpy iaea' anoits success
iui reaization Is attesteu Dy tne loiiowing test-
mohiai' over Inc signature Oh WI. moran i'inseii'
NEWARK, N. D., september zolh 1878.
Messrs James Sutton q Co..
Gentlemen am delighted with the proofs In
color OF your chromos' They are wonderfully
successful representa'ions py necnanicai pro-
cess OF the original paintings.
Very res pectfully,
(Signed) THoS. MORAN.
These chromos are IN every sense American.
They are by an original American process, with
material OF American manufacture. from designs
OF American scenery by an American painter,
and presented to subscribers to the hrst success
of ali this, they viii certainly possess an il terest
no foreign production can inspire, and neither
are they any the worse if by reason of peculiar
facilities of production they cost the publishers
only trifie, while equal in every respect to othel
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