Morning journal and courier., 1883-02-28

EXh1D1I1On or AAtCAAhSSS oAAN~
 Engravings, by MT. Herbert Herkomer'
 A. A.
 The Yale School of Fine Arts will have on exhibition for two days only (Friday and Saturday of this week. several of the paint ngs, and above twenty of the etchings and engravings of MT. Herbert Herkomer, A. R. A., of England.
 These admirable works of art have been on exhibition in New York, Boston, Phila- delphia and elsewhere, and have been highly commended by the press. The faculty of the Art School have invited MT. Herkomer to visit our Art School and deliver Q lecture some of his work. The collection embraces two half-lengths. One is very vigorous portrait of MT. Archibald Forbes, the dis tinguished war correspondent of the London Tunes and the other is of MT. Herkomer's father. There is also smaller portrait in water colors of MT. Ruskin which is very fine Of the latter MT. Herkomer himself says: t'This portrait started my plan of painting series of portraits of illustrious men of our times. I rejoice to think I have the only portrait of that great and good man, as our English Queen once expressed herself when speaking of John Ruskin. His friendship is to me very precious and those sittings that had in his little working and sleeping room, at the top of the house, at Herne Hill, will always be memorable to me. That room in the roof, only about twelve feet square, is all the more remarkable be- cause it was his nursery in childhood" Of k1a of komer writes: ''Here is nature diametri- oally opposed to that of Ruskin. Compact, square, clear headed as well as strong headed, giving him all the qualities of the ancient knight errant We find him ecorrecting and exposing wherever he goes. He fears neith- CT man nor the devil I endesvored to rep resent him while in the act of talking. No picture that I have yet done, not excepting Last Muster has met with so much favor as this portrait"
 The etchings by Mir. Herkomer are of special interest at the present time, when so much attention is given to the study of this art. Their titles are as follows: Waiting for Relief''-the entire plate in d'y point :; ''The Orphans" also d,y.point etching, with the addition of roulette applied to the back ground; ''In Troubles" Richard Wagner"- entirely the work of the burin (Mr. Herkomer says: s'It was done from the portrait painted of the 'Meister,. in the spring of TT. and was the enforced work of seven days''); "Words of Comfort" etched from the London Port foho ''The Blind Shepherd" Portraits of MT. Herkomer and his children''-a mixture of the dry-poiast with the bitter line 'sTouched"; "The QuarreP'; Two Heads this is from the folio, and was done to show the same head treated in two materials, | in pure etching, and in mezzotint ''The | Shepherds Daughter" ''Grsnny's Story" 'Cecil Lawson''-pure d1y-p0int.
 l The mezzotints are as follows: Portrait of Mir. Herkomer's Mother ;" ''The Poacher's Fate"Sa mixture of etching and mezzotint | Fancy Free'-pure mezzotint; "9ohn Rus kn''-in pure mezzotint, without line
 'sChild with Apple ;" Landscape, after Jo | seph night"-painted in two colors ''Mas ter of Trinity college, Cambridge" in pure mezzotint from MT. Herkomer's portrait of him-(of this mezzotint the artist says ssThis must be classed with the best of my mezzotint work up to this period"); ''Caalle, Herrin," :" after Millais. Of this last MT. Her komer writes: 'sThis plate was a great tes to mechanical as well as artistic skill. I can not detect the slightest difference in artisti
 sensation when copying my own work or tha
 of another man. In both cases the pictur
 has to be reduced, reproportionedi in its tone
 and interpreted from the engraver's point O
 view. am no longer the painter when en
 grave my work, but purely the eneraver O.
 interpreter"
 As these works will only be on exhibition
 for two days, Friday and Saturday, it i
 hoped the public will avail themselves of thi
 opportunity for seeing the work of one o
 the most distinguished artists of the Englis
 school. fee is charged to cover the ez
 pense of bringing these works to New Haven ] It is suggested that as there is no catalogu
 of these works it would be well to preserv
 this KoaDer for referencA