The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1877-09-19

One OF the most attractive exhibits at the
New England Fair, the one which, with the
exception OF the display in the art gallery,
commanded the chief attention of lovers OF art,
was that of the Osgood heliotypes. The atten-
ton was richly merited, for the Boston pub
fishing house has, by the heliotype process en-
aoled admirers and students of pictures and
schools of art to obtain at almost nominal price
excellent reproductions of famous ancient and
modern pictures. Some years since the process
became known and was first introduced to pub
lie notice by the copies from the fine Gray co..
lection of Harvard University, which j. K.
osgood & Company submitted to their patrons.
AS 1t possessed all the permanence and beauty
OF an engraving and the fidelity OF photo
graph it Immediately won high place in the
estimation of collectors. The wonderfully low
price at which the copies were offered COM
bined with their artistic merit to secure for
them an enormous sale, and few portfolios
were wanting in the Raphael Rembrandt and
Correggo reproductions. Indeed when one
could get exquisite copies of half the Madonnas
of Raphael at the price formerly paid for an
engraving of the Fornarina the large demand
was only natural and expected. So great and
immediate was the success of the undertaking
that the process was at once applied to other
noted pictures, both of the old masters and the
modern painters. The catalogue now embraces
nearly three hundred subjects.
Until lately those in this city wishing these
heliotypes have found it necessary to visit Bos-
ton Within a short time, however, the we'll
known book selling firm of Loripg, Short &
Harmon have taken the agency for them and
now have on exhibition full line thus5afford-
ing opportunity to all contemplating pur-
chase to examine the engravirgs at leisure and
make selection from the large list. The dis
play is tempting one, some of the finest and
most celebrated pictures in the world being
represented by excellent copies. Among the
representations of the old masters are to be
found the famous Madonnas of Raphael.-the
Madonnas of the Meadow and the Garden, of
San Sisto and Granduca and Tenda-the For
marina and Vision of Ezekiel of the same pain
ter; the Danae and La Bella of Titan; the
Christ Crowned with Thorns OF Vaudyke; the
Last Supper of Da Vinci; the Feast of Vero-
nese; the Water Carrier of Velasquez; the
Diogenes of Salvador Rosa; the Aurora and st.
Michael of Guido; the Ecce Homo. Three
Trees and Beggar Family of Rembrandt; the
Immaculate Conception and Madonna of
the Rosary of Murllo; the Three Fates and La
Fortuna of Michael Angelo; the Meyer Ma
donna of Holbein; the Card-Plsyers of Cara
vaggio; the Knight of Death and st. Jerome of
Albert Durer: the Quack Doctor of Gerard Dow;
the st. John of Domenichino; the Mater Dol
orosa of Carl Dolce; the Seaport of Claude Lor-
raine; and the Reading Magdalen, Jupiter and
10, and Leda's Bath of Correggio.
Nor is the list less rich in representations of
modern paintsrs. 1t leads off in this department
with the Landseer portfolio, containing twenty
nine of his most noted pictures, among them,
the Stag at Bay, the Monarch of the Glen, the
Challenge, the Sick Monkey, and Dignity and
are well represented. Herring by the Temper
ance Meeting and others, Gainsborough by the
Siddons portrait, Kneler by the Duchess of
Grafton, Reynolds by the Penelope Boothby
and many others. The pre-Raphaelites show
the Yes and No, Black Brunswicker and First
Sermon of Millais, and Light of the World of
Holman Hunt The modern French school is
in Meissonier's Flemish Smoker
the Widows Mite of Dubufe, the Moses of Del
aroche. the Highland Morning of Rosa Bon
heur, and other rich examples. The foregoing
are but few ofthe engravings by the heliotype
process, which are offered at the lowsprice Of
one dollar each. Those desiring to inspect them
should take look at Messrs. Loring, Short b
Harmon's portfolios.