New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-01

OF the ordinary phoogr phc art glance at the port
folio in which some or its striking applications are
shown discoses snrprising variety of suhiec's MAPS
architectural designs, buildings Of all kinds animals
landscapes portraits, musical instruments agriculture"
implements tools Of all sorts. library catalogue entries
letters Oh documents centennial relics firearms etc
The process has been extensively used in scientific WorSs
OF tie highest class, the United states Government
Ha1ng empioyed VI arS1H nf tbe war
Che Reports Of Lieutenant Whecers ana TO
portant works 1t has proved valuable iof sevSln 1@
Governments. In Illustrating their geological, suIN -
and historical societies. IN various States nave Irg
quenty employed Vt III reproducing 3p.cls Hon ' sa
collections. Illustrations for town histories are tso
produced readily and cheapy Ivy its means III shprl
NAV be said 10 be capable of dealing with almost every
thing that is found in nature, or ,hai ' h
ingenuity Of man has devised IL shou,u pu
borne in mind that the nelioiype Process
is not oreinatiye, but merely gn,1. die,itv:
and this fact renders it specially valuable III eopl
manuscripts 1t onits adds no word, or letyeF, or
iipyng old documents it gives perfect facsmiies ana
Is certain guarantee of their accuracy And, IA i ~
ever 10 does 10 adds 10 The minute iathiulhess OF lnv
photograph the pernanence which belongs to the most
durable print.
HEHoTYPE ENGRAvINGs.
But the most important ana most popular product OF
the process aud the one most engaging the atten
ton of its proprieors the reproduction aud puhca
tion OF steel cncravings and these reproductions are
what the public commonly knows as Helotypes Messrs.
Osgood & Co. have already published several hundred
subjects and their catalogue shows an imposing list OF
artists and engravers, both of earlier and later uines
We fluid here the names OF Titan. Raphael Michael
Angelo, Leonardo da VIuci, CorreCgio Direr, Guido
Murillo Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Nolasqucz, RubenS'
Salvador Rosa among the Older artists Artists oil more
recent periods represented by the weknown names
OF REYNOLDS Gainsborough, AIRY Schecr, Rosa Bonhour
Iandseer Mllas Delaroche, Faed Grenze Hanon, hol-
man Hunt, Meyer Won Bremen Knaus Marak' ana many
Others OF the celebrated engryers represented wenoe
Of Eialiuck,
Nantcuil. Longhi, Muller, Strange, Sharp, Wilke,
BartOlozzi, Mandel, DesnOyers, Warm, Colsens,
Thomas LAndseer simmons. blanchard and Atkinson
the last decade has developed with amazing rapidly III
our country interest in and an intelligent appreciation
of art and in extending that interest and quicken
ing that appreciation that The elioype Process. rightly
directed may play important part. For many years
to come most Americans must gain their chief knowledge
Of the masterpieces of painting through engravings.
Many the celebrated engrayngs of great pictures
have now ami costly and only TO be seen
in public galleries and large private collections Here
the function Of the Heotype Process begins; II comes
to the aid OF art, multpies these costly ana neau-
ul works, and brings them within easy reach Oh 'he
whole public.
Tie publishers call thcae reproductions ieotype en-
cravings. and they produce them on thick sheet or
handsome paper Of uniform size OF nineteen h twenty
four inches and at uniform price on one o'ia tacn
This low urce is but Of the cardinal oXcecnces OF
this enterprise. These reproductions sustain most
favorab!y the test OF carellli comparison WIZ VIZ p
original engravincs from which they are COPIED. Oh
accuracy OF outline was 10 DC cApecteu rom VIC
nature of the process well as preservation OF me
general characteristics OF The pcture but such perfection
~ work hardly TO be expected rs l. shown IN
the delicate contrasts OF light and shade Wnieh con
stifue much OF the expression and eject OF an en-
craving Ii one of these dollar hehOtypes were framed
and hung the wall, would not be easy fir anyone
even an expert in engrayng-to distinguish 1t from
stcei cOppcrpatc PRINT.
The publishers seem he alive to the Importance OF
this undertaking. Tev have established special agencies
in each large city aud town ia all the North
,rn and Western states. every town with ron
ulation Of over 10000 inhabitants beng provided
with Heliotype gallery where the pictures can oe seen
and bought These arrangements are usually made W.
one of the prominent bookstores III tte town. III
New York City McssrS 4. ID. T. Randolph Co., corner
Of Broadway and Twentlethsf. the special agents,
where al interested art. and one Of the latest
and most imp0rt aliuucta 10 its development, may
examine the HeiiOtype engraylngs