The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-11-10
THE TRADE IN PLASTER CASTS,
The Casts which Are in Most popuJar
Demand -Where Most or the Or.
ders Come from,
New York SUM

"Ihe trade IN plaster casts, said manll-
iacturer, used 10 be mostly confined TO
cheap images, which were carried
around upon board and peddled from door
to door. To-day it is a quite different
matter, Some catalogues contain from one
to i've hundred figures, many Of them being
taken from the finest works Of sculpture.
You can buy in New York to-day good casts
OF almost any Of the carved masterpiece, in
European galleries Yet only a few years
ago teachers found it difficult TO get the few
works necessary for class instruction"
which are the most popular of the larger
works. Well, figure-drawing the Medcean
Venus aud the DiscObOlus, or quOit-thrower.
In simple busts the Ariadne and Clvtie are
fayorites. MaSqleS Of the Jupiter Of Phidias
and Of The various heads Of gods and god
desSes are always in demand. The schools
also buy wagon-loads of old plaster feet,
hands and limbs, or other parts of the human
frame, IN all imaginable positions, My list
includes over 300 casts OF all kinds Most
Of the great antique figuresor torsos furnish
in three sizes, aud all schools eau afford to
have the smaller ones
The most popular things in my line for
libraries are portrait busts. Shakespeare,
Byron and Burns are most largely called for
and, in antiques, -Eschylus, AriStOphaneS and
Demosthenes. Country libraries send for
plaster heads of modern poets and phioso'
piers The trade in bllSts of modern states
men has fallen of somewhat Ny Grant
mOlds are by no means overworked just now
OF recent writers Dickens sells best; of mod
ern generals, Napoleon. Debating clubs
run to Ciceros, Websters and Clays, and
medical societies to IIoculapius and Hippo
crates, but Galen has fallen off badly. For
Railways, bustS of the Caesars are in vogue
Country social clubs want blsts of Raphael
Michael Angelo, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope,
and Dryden. Here Is an order from literary
cIuD whose secretary wants four good, cele-
brated, literary busts large size, at lowest
figures. And there's an order from fat
mems club, They want good cast, not less
than three feet high, of the Three Graces, for
crntre-table. Fauns and BacchuSes also go
we'll among the social clubs. Political clubs
take to busts of Jefferson of late, Wash
ngton always sells well-on horseback OF
OF -and 50 does Jackson. The German clubs
delight in busts of the great musicians
The most popular casts among cultivated
men, Well, in busts should say the Young
Augustus has the call Among the Venuees
that Of Nlelos is best liked We sell a very
large number of these. They bring FROM
$ljO to SO, according to size. Some people
Of taste prefer the Psyche Of the Naples mu-
scum In the way of male beauty notice
great change in taste. Cultivated people
used to prefer the Apollo TO the Antinous
To-day sell a dozen figures of the latter to
one Of the former The Mercury Of John of
Bologna is very popular with almost all
Americans who care for statues, They like
its grace and its action The Fighting Gladi-
ator and Michael Au.olr' Nreotiers also sell
well nowadays. have sold more of them
in the past two years than i'll the previous
ten years, OF late / have sold many ex-
quisite casts from the friezes of the vatican.
They are largely used for interior decorative
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