Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-06-29
NOTES ON ARTS AND ARTISTS

Stephen Parrish, the brilliant etcher, is
about to etch for Boston art dealer the
Gloucester Harbor of the late William
NJ. Hunt.
The British Museum has nine fresh
cases of inscribed tablets from the site and
neighborhood of Babylon, supposed to be.
long in the later Babylonian period, They
are understood to be chiefly contract tables.
The National Portrait Gallery, London,
has become the owner of bust of Thack.
cray when young given by his daughter,
Mrs. Richie. 1t is taken from cast Of
his face at Is made by travelling Italian
seller of plaster casts.
According to London weekly of more
than usual ability in criticism, the head of
the Carlyle made by Boehm for the Ghel-
sea embankment of the Thames has the
superficial elements of likeness, although
it shows no deep reading of character and
is roughly executed"
The Boston Journal is unhappy over the
new show OF the Society of American Art
lists, which "shows in its general aspect
the utmost brutality of the rankest Impress
sionism." Even Homer D. Martin, that
excellent landscape painter, is shown here
at his worst, or very nearly SO, by land
scape at Newport in which the sky is, if
anything, of deeper green than the grass,
and the tone of the whole picture suggest.
i've of the scum on frog pond" It'll evil
dent that there are plenty of people who
never see the sky any other color than
blue, and when they look at the scum on
a frog pond cannot see anything to admire
in it.
The National Gallery in London now
owns singular painting by William Blake,
dated 1905, who called it "fresco" and
entitled it in the descriptive catalogue,
The Spiritual Form of Pitt Guiding Be.
hemoth." 1t forms a companion piece to
"The Spiritual Form of Nelson Guiding
Leviathan." Blake described this "fresco "
as representing "that Angel pitt who,
pleased to perform the Almighty's orders,
rides in the Whirlwind directing the
Storms of War. He is ordering the Reaper
to reap the Vine of the Earth. and the
Ploughman TO plough up the Cities and
Towers" The design, says the Atheneunl,
comprises the majestic figure of The angel
directing the monster Behemoth, whose
enormous jaws are wide open and filled
with symbolic figures. The execution is
most elaborate and the color splendid.
The London Times says that Rossetti
was a colorist in the sense "that his more
elaborate designs never show the instinct
of outline and the frmness of hand char.
acteristic of the French and German q
schools" Among living painters Mr.. Ros.
setti has realized the highest type of female
beauty. There is in his single figures
Sibylla, : Palmifera, Silence, The
Blessed Damozel, Prosperine,' with
fixed eyes ever in vain on the pitiless eyes
Of Fate, or whatever else they may be
called-an intensity of expression and q
depth of pathos which speaks to the hear
as we'll as to the eye. 1t may be said thai
the type of beauty once attained by tn,
artist was little varied by him. We have
again and again the same wavy masses o
hair in different shades of brown and au
burn, the same ully-developed mouth
that it is difficult to quarrel with an artis
for giving us too much of one thing if thai
one is SO exquisite.