Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-02-19
ART SKETCHES.
NOTES OF PROGRESS AND HISTORY
IN THE WORLD OF ART.
Their Doings-Galleries and
Exhibitions.

France, the upper surface nodded IN dla-
monds.
| Carved wooden knife boxes and salt
| boxes, of an old English style, are being
made for the kitchen.
Willow pattern cups and saucers printed
in colors are being used largely IN England
| for invitations to tea.
What purports to be Pompeian vein OF
design is setting in for certain pieces of
metal furniture, such as lamps.
The picture of NIillet, called ola
Tueur de Cochons," has been sold for
%, GOO francs.
The Emperor of Austria has made Mum
kacsy, the painter, hereditary Hun
garian noble.
Hans Markart is painting an immense
interior of an Italian bath house, orna-
mented in the richest style OF the Renais-
sance.
Sets of door furniture in Egyptian style
handle, bell-pull, knocker and letter
plate-are being made for large house in
London.
A Geographical Society has lately been
formed at Oporto in connection with that
of Lisbon, under the title Of Sociedade
Portuense de Geographic.
The Princess of Wales has given sittings
for her portrait to Sidney P. Hall, an
artist who has done much sketching while
accompanying the Prince OF Wales on jour
neys abroad.
If we do not succeed in America in intro
| ducing into our homes the most approved
modern ideas in furniture and decoration,
it will not be from lack of opportunity.
England has made wonderful strides dur
ing the last few years in her art industries,
and we are steadily benefting by what she
is accomplishing in this direction.
Another attraction will be-if finished
in time-the portrait of NJ. Gambetta, by
NJ. Madrazzo, a Spanish painter living In
Paris, who is now engaged in reproducing
! the fine features of the President of the
Chamber of Deputies. The same artist
will also send to the Salon portrait OF NJ.
! Coquelin, the we'll known actor of the
Coincide Francois, who is represented in
the costume of Don Cesar de BaZan, one
of his favorite roles.
Velveteen, if of good quality, makes an
excellent ground for screen panels, chair
covers, portieres, curtains, borders, etc
1t can be worked in the hand, if the en-
broidery be not too heavy or large in style
Utrecht velvet is only suitable for coarse
crewel or tapestry wool embroidery. 1t is
! fit for curtain dados or wide borderings.
| Velvet cloth is rich plain cloth, finished
without any gloss. 1t is good ground for
embroidery, either for curtains or altar
cloth.
Novices should not attempt too much in
the way of color. Harmones in shades of
one color are usually successful, especially
IN golden browns and reds. If all the
colors are used together they harmonic
! each other, as we see in Indian and other
polychrome work. Two or three colors
require great circumspection to get them
right, for all combinations depend very
much on the shade and tone of each, and
all presuppose skill in coloring that is in
part a gift, but in part also the result and
reward OF study and experience.
Ferns, well pressed and dried, and then
painted thickly with liquid gold paint, are
sometimes applied with good effect to the
doors of a cabinet. One who has just
tried the experiment and succeeded says
'' After cumming the backs, l arranged
them on the panels of the door, pressing
them with an old soft cloth. Where the
gold paint moved off, 1 painted it again
when dry, Lastly, carefully laid on
wash of clear varnish, doing it as quickly
as possible. This preserves the ferns and
gliding, and improves their appearance.
A large picture by the late David Scott,
r. S. A., containing some seven or eight
life.sized figures, was recently sold in an
auction room in Edinburgh for the mag
90 cox 70 oil
sary to remind our readers that this is the
same David Scott whom d. G. Rossetti has
written of as the very greatest genius OF
the century, and who has been justly called
1.-THE Scottish Gainsborough. At one part
of his career the pictures OF the late j. +.
Millet did not fetch even the modest sum
of twenty francs and something of the
same kind of ill-luck and unpOpularlty has
been associated with the pictures OF David
Scott from the beginning. 1t may be very
safely foretold that with advancing art
knowledge, Scott's pictures will some day
be ten times their present value. Art
Amateur.
An important decision, affecting all pos
SCISSORS of pictures, has been arrived at
by Vice-C Chancellor Mains. 1t appears
that the late Lord Londesborough, who
died in 1861 bequeathed to his wife abso-
lutely all his 'objects of Uertu and taste,
with life interest in his mansion in Carl.
ton House Terrace, its furniture and other
effects. The question was raised whether
certain pictures including a Carlo Dolci
and Landseer, and valued at about
Els, 0G0, were to be reckoned among the
articles of Uertu and Taste left absolutely to
her ladyship, or whether they should be
classed with the furniture, in which she
has only life interest. By a decision in
favor of the latter view, a precedent Is
established by which, according to the
diotum of the Vice-C Chancellor, pictures will
be regarded in future as furniture, and not
as articles of Ue5ta, in courts OF la1.
a very interesting lecture was recently
delivered before the Anthropologica lnstl-
tute, London, by j. F. Rowbotham, on the
different stages in the development Of the
art of music in prehistoric times. Al
though, he SAID, the varieties of musical
instruments may be counted by hundreds,
vet they are all reducible under three dis
tiuct types l, the drum type 3 the pipe
/ type 3, the Tyre type. These three types
are representative OF three distinct stages
of development through which prehistoric
/ IluSlG Hd4 EdcSSng anu Al SAS oAAeSA J1SH
stated. The first period in the develop
ment OF music was the drum stage, IN
which drums and drums alone were used.
The second was the pipe stage, in which
pipes as well as drums were used. The
! third was the Tyre stage, in which strmged
/ instruments were added to the stock.
These three stages answer respectively to
rythm, melody and harmony. In the
musical history of mankind the Tyre stage
is never found to precede the pipe stage,
nor the pipe stage to precede the drum
stage.
A correspondent of the Dirt Amateur
writes thus pointedly "When will the
artists take the carpenters in hand and
inoculate them with few saving ideas of
taste The common carpenter has a
great deal to do for many people Of taste
to their finger-tips, who read the art
Asaateur, but live perforce in hired
houses. After six weeks penance in an
ordinary suburban cottage in view of
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