Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-11-01
Art Notes

Franklin Simmons offers for the
statue Of Longfellow awarded him BY
the Statue Association a seated ngure
with cloak thrown back on the chair
and the left Lee covered. TIE left hand
nolds a roll of manuscript and the right
hangs over the arm Of the char. The
square at the head of State street, Bos-
ton, h.s been chosen for the monument.
The PoHfo.io publishes an etching
by Masse after 4 "Venice - by Ziem'
in which the veteran Partisan has
played odd tricks with an archaic brig
flying the American flag from her Dah'
Mr. Uamerton sees the liberties taken
here. but seems to fail TO perceive that
not one boat-not even the gondolas-
are in the remotest degree true to
reality. But these are things of small
importance compared to the merits Of
Ziem as a colorist, although cOlorist
on very limited scale.
Concerning the English water-cOlors
brought over by that able artistic show
man, Henry Blackburn, the Boston
Herald says that the collection IS
marked by conservatism and conyen-
tionality Of style. The Daily Adrer-
Hser speaks Of "a perfection Of draw
ing and a purity Of coloring oftentimes
almost oppressive" and then qualities
by admitting that the drawing lacks the
highest attributes-lile, supPleness,
movement, and freedom-and that " in
color they cannot, - a whole, be said
to rank high
The picture-gallery to be given to
Milwaukee by Mr.. Layton will occupy
q corner plot 100 feet square on Jefler-
son street. The architects are W. &
G.. Audsley, Of London, England. who
will use ohio gray sandstone, Milwau-
kee pressed brick, and terras, the latter
presumably English. 1t will be 80 by
leo feet. and of one lofty story; the
style a modernized Greek, approaching
the French, and the entrance a porch
with Huted columns and carved capt.
tails. The main picture-gallery will be
80 by 50, and the sculpture-roOm 25 by
3o, with smaller rooms on the sides.
A large find of prehistoric burial
urns has been made on the Pitreayie
estate, in Fife. The urns are from i've
to twelve inches high, reddish in color,
handmade, with erected brims and
decorated with projecting rings and de-
signs in oblique lines and dots on the
neck. Some contained bones, others
vegetable mould. A number were en-
closed in small stone graves, and the
entire cemetery was marked by circle
Of stones, which fringed a mound 200
feet in diameter on moor. Part are
supposed to belong to the stone, part
to the bronze age, though no metal
articles have been found. According
to DR.. Worsaae, the Scandinavian arch.
Hol0gist, signs of cremation point to
the bronze age.
A reviewer Of reeeat English work
on architecture says that the state Of
the art in England is truly bad. "0ur
public buildings ought to be the best
in the world, and are not so because
those who know and care for good
architecture are still comparatively few,
and the dispensing Of public patronage
rarely falls to them. The departments
and elected bodies who have the man.
agement of it reflect, after fashion,
the feeling Of the outside public but
from their natural slowness TO accept
new ideas it is the feeling of the last
generation, or Of the one before that,
which now rules them. And the Office
Of Works, which has the control Of
Government buildings, seems to be Of
all the most backward"