Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-29
NOTES ON ART AND ARTISTS.

NOTES ON ART AND ARTISTS.
Mulvaney has had his "Custer's Last
Rally acknowledgement, using fifteen
tints.
Samuel J. Tilden has loaned 20 the
Southern Exposition at Louisville MS
Hopeless Case"
An art school will be opened in Atlanta,
Ca, by FL. Bradley and Mrs. Bacon next
/ September.
Valencia, Spain, is to have an equestrian
statue of James l. nearly twenty feet in
hight. The sculptor is Vallmitjana, of
Barcelona.
The celebrated White Horse drawn in
colossal outlines on a hill near Kilbu-n,
Yorkshire, has been freshly laid with lime
and Is now seen as a landmark ss in former
times.
Ellis Lever has given to the Prince of
Wales painting of the Longfelow house,
facing the River Charles, in Cambridge,
Mass, painted by Ernest Longfellow, the
son of the poet.
The Charleston IS. c. Ne,cs asks for in
formation concerning the parentage. birth
and early life of the late Louis Mignot,
National Academy, 1859, who left New
York in 1861, and died in London 1871.
Out of 46S students in the Munich
Academy of Art, 80 are from Austria. "a
from America, % from Switzerland, and 10
from Norway. OF the 259 Germans half
are Bavarian and half from other parts of
the empire.
At Constantinople the corporation called
Bezesten or Depository in the Great Bazaar
was about to sell an antique seal of Mo-
manned, the conqueror of Constsntinople,
for $500, when the Imperial Museum
stepped in and claimed the relic as State
property.
Pieces of bridge dating from B. c. SO,
have been found at Mayence. They are
said to be sound inside, and some of the
wood will be used for. pianos. 1t is re-
ported that collectors and persons wishing
TO have pieces of furniture made of such
well-seasoned timber made great efforts to
obtain some.
1t appears that the Able Morgna has
actually formed the company for the dis
covery in the Red sea and Bitter lakes of
Egypt of the chariots and treasures of the
army ofsPharoah which pursued the Israel
ties. A sum of $50, 000f. has been sub
scribed. The expedition will go by way of
Marseilles.
The fierce republicans of Agen, in the
department Lot.et. Garonne, France, have
determined to melt down an extremely Gu.
rious and beautiful clock of the fifteenth
century, in the belfry of the Hotel.de.
Vile, and make bust of the republic of
the metal. The reason given is that the
fieur.de lys of the BOurbons, together
with the arms of the town, are worked
upon it.
Edwin Long, r. A., is London painter
of huge historical pictures, mostly of
scenes in the Old Testament, whose sue.
cess with buyers is one of the standing
marvels of English art. He is another
kind of Firth, only more so. Enormous
sums are paid for his big canvases, yet no
artist with any selfrespect can be got to
admire them. He lives in curious house,
half hall, half studio, and the door is
opened by Zulu. Mr.. Long understands
his British public.
There is some chance that the sea near
Delos will yield up colossal bronze horse.
Some fishermen from II gina were diving
for sponges near the former island when
they found an ancient bronze horse from
which they wrenched off foot. It has
been bought by psychologists, who hope to
recover the entire statue. The foot shows
excellent workmanship, and the theory is
that it was votive offering once set up on
the island sacred to Apollo. The fisher
men found it almost covered with shell fish.
King Humbert, of Italy, has presented
to the Italian department of the Boston
Exposition a marble bust of himself. j. j.
Jarves, the Commissioner to Italy for the
Exposition, has accepted the bust, and
asked, in true diplomatic phrases, " that
your Majesty will deign to permit this
work to be preserved among the precious
objects of art belonging to the American
nation il perpetual testimony of your Ma
jesty's good. will toward the people of the
United States, where the name of your
Majesty and the august house of Savoy are
so much revered and admired.
w. NJ. Flinders Petrie has been studying
the tools of the Egyptians of the pyramids
and found that they had mechanical con-
trivances hitherto supposed not older than
the tenth century of our era. 1t is now
proved that they drilled holes in granite
with tubular drill, presumably of bronze
and with it's cutting circular edge set with
hard jewels, probably corendum. After
drilling for some distance the granite core
was broken ont. Holes are found in which
the process is only half complete, showing
the method used. Stone collins were hol-
lowed out by drilling holes in this way
along the line, each touching its neighbor.
The inequalities were rubbed off after the
solid stone core of the coffin had been re-
moved. 1t is also known that circular
saws set with hard jewels were used for
slicing stone