Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-07
PAINTER AND PICTURE.
Notes ard Gossip of Artists and
Thsir Work.
A Brief Resume Of the Weeks Events
George Storms Great Canvas
Some Holiday Nov
elites.

AtN;choiI sIcau be seen the new holiday
pictures. The Old Mill Stream and
Iucman's new subjects are the tayorites.
The pictlres most used this season for
;ciiday gifts are engrsvingS and artotypes,
handsomely framed and used with an easel.
Messrs Sam Miller and Cain Summers,
our boss amateur photographers at the State
house, are doing some very creditable
work.
Mr. Nicoll has arranged with the Print.
sellers Association to have the very latest
engravings and etchings forwarded as soon
Is published.
4 novelty in wall brackets is of Gothic
shape, and contains beyeled-edge mirror.
1t is finished with plush and has two shelves,
suitable for displaying ornaments.
Christmas cards are not so costly as they
we're last season. The tavorites seem to be
the landscape designs with frosted finish
and some ofthe scenes are exquisite.
Coloring photographs is now the craze
among Wheeling ladies. Mrs. Geo. Wise
executed some very pretty subjects; among
them was noticed The Honeymoon"
Silk plush has become so popular that it
now enters into the construction Of most
al kinds Of goods, and most merchants have
some wares made Of plush to show their
customers.
Mr.. George Storm is busily engaged on
the 6x5 feet canvass to represent Bougar-
eaus "Nymphs and Satyr. This is the
highest priced picture ever produced in
Wheeling.
Souvenirs are very plentiful and the new
class of goods are very popular, owing to
the fact that they can be given without the
cost being taken into consideration.
Handsome fire screens are now used
made of autumn leaves-this is the way
Get a pretty screen frame and two pieces of
glass to fit, arrange autumn and fern leaves
between the glass, fasten in the frame and
you will find pretty effect.
A process invented by Edwin LLOYD. Eus-
ton Road, county of Middlesex. England, for
decorating glass consists in first painting,
printing. etching or engraving a design or
ornamentatlon on the back surface OF the
glass; second. coating the design with pro.
,eCting vsrniSh; third, silvering or gliding
The back of the glass aud the design Of orna
mentation; aud, fourth, coating the silvered
or gilded back With varnish, Ied-lead paint
or other protecting medium or backing.
Cassell i Co, will soon begin the publ
carton Of The Artists Library, a series of
,olrshla hand ho,ka -, +La I;-.o-- cd
PRACTICAL operation of ART for the benei. of
art students and manufacturers of art
goods. The works are BY well-known for
cign writers, and are published under the
patronage Of the Administration of Fine
Ars. Paris, They are translated by COM
petent authorities, and edited by John
Sparkes, principal OF the South kensingston
Art School 4 number Of engrayiugs will
be given in each volume.
A gentleman entereli one of our veil
known photograph galleries last week and
said, Il want cabinet picture of myself"
Inc artist placed him in position and screw
ed up his machine 10 the proper focus.
Now look bright and Cheerful" he said
and keep your eye fastened on that hole in
the wall - Instead OF looking cheerful the
man conceived himself forward. dropped
his jaw aud assumed a look of infkte
WEAKNESS. What's the matter with You"
exclaimed the photographer Brace VI.
say, and look pleasant" IF this position
costs any thing extra" was the answer. u
am willing 10 pay for it. Ny wife is in the
country visiting friends and ! want her TO
come home This picture goes to her.
know what | am about. Pull off the blank
ct. Mr.. Artist, AID commence your count
ing"
The finest and most costly piece of
furniture ever conceived was the famous
peacock throne Of Delhi. Tavern;er, a
skillful French jcweler. saw it. and made
computation as 20 its intrinsic value.
He calmly estimated that It's nominal worth
aside from its claims in an artistic way,
was $4,000. 1t was six fee, high and four
feet broad. but ii was composed of solid
gold inlsid with rare oriental gems. 1t re-
ceived its name from jeweled images of pea
cocks which adorned its canopy. This
canopy was also Of gold, supported on
twelve gold pillars, and hung sill
around with a fringe Of pearls.
On each side Of the throne
stood two chuttahs, or umbrellas, SYMBOL.
cal Of royalty. They were made Of crimson
velvet, embroidered with gold threads and
pearls, and were equipped with solid gold
handles and diamonds. The throne was
constructed By Austin de Bordeaux. at the
order Of the Emperor Shah Jehsu, the same
enterTriSing monarch who had constructed
the Tai, the pearl mosque of Agra, and
other most remarkable monuments Of archi.
lecture in these parts The peacock throne
was carried away BY the Persian, Nadhir
Shah, while the jeweled ceiling was melted
down by the Mshrattss at the time Of their
invasion In 1853. The ceiling was valued