Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-12-22
THE ART OF ENGRAVING.
Its Processes Illustrated by an Exhibi-
ton at the National Museum.

at the {. s. national museum there il at
present on exhibition, placed temporarily in
the Lecture hall the collection which was pre-
pared for the Ohio valley centennial at Cincin-
nati By Mr.. S. z. KOehler. the curator OF the
section Of graphic arts. This collection, num-
herring $50 specimens. illustrates in a summary.
but nevertheless tolersbly complete manner.
the Developments Of al the leading and many
81 the minor processes which have been used
IN the past or are now in use for the produc-
non OF printable blocks and plates, from the
TooteHttlng and line-engraviny of the If
tseuth and sixteenth centuries in which the
cesisn as well as the execution is due entirely
TO human agency, down to the latest photo
mechanlcai baif-tone processes. which produce
a'pEate OF block without the least aid Of either
designer or engrayer. Among the older wood
cuts tngrayIngs. etchiugs. &c. there are fine
examples by ScEOngauer. Duorer. Lucas Won
Leyden- Mantsgna. Marc Antonio Goltzius. the
engraEers OF Rubens school, Van Dyck. Penn
brandt "a snperlatively beautiful impression
IF the "Christ Preaching'D and other great
Dutch efchers; the great French portrait en-
Rrayers OF the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, Strange. Sharp, Mueller Ia fine i'm
preston OF the Sis'lne Madonna), &c. OF
modern European work the etchings by Tur-
nsr, seymour Haden, Rajon. Cnger and others,
and the Autographs by Mensel. Feckert and
lasaIle are especially noticeable American
line-engraving Is molly represented by proof
%tuPFeS-4Ou Vi Duauu 'Arlddue." Separate
divisions Of the exhibition have been assigned
70 the history OF vood-engraying and etching
IN the United States a. representative OF two
branches Of artistic activity which have given
MS standing with the best the world over
he division of woOd-engraying begins with
Dr.Alexander Anderson. and reaches down tothe
latest works Of Cole, johnson. Kruell Closson
Ieel- Juengling, Hoskia, King aud Miller
mostly IN examples familiar TO the public from
the pages of the Century and Harpers but as q
rule IN the finest hand-press proofs The Ameri-
can etehings reach back 10 Chapman and George
Lorlng Brown, and include proofs from plates
Dy AL the artists whose works in that line have
brongnt them fame-such as Farrer, Peter and
Tnomas Moran, +. Swain Clifford, James D.
omaiie, Parrish, Piatt, Penneid, Schoff. Whist
Ter and his followers. and others. group
within this grosp is formed by the women
etehers OF America-Mrs. Greatorex. Mrs Anna
Lea Merritt. Miss Mary Cassatt. Mrs. E. X
Moran Mrs. NJ Nimmo Moran. Mrs Getchell.
Mrs Twaehtman, &c. An explanatory cata-
4Ogue. prepared by the curator being a gov
ernD,ent publication. can be had gratis upon
eppIeation. A large part Of the collection has
been lent to the museum by artists and others
Tor ttsis exposition, but many Of the specimens
and among them some Of the finest, have be-
come tae property Of the institution either by
gift or by purchase, aud will therefore eyeutri-
ally be incorporated with the permanent col
lection Of the section Of graphic arts.
A Cincinnati school teacher was offered sfs
In gold to learn I'll lessons she set for twelve
s :s sssa. sri in ven time and 'As isd il