Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-01-24
ondarv 10 chcnnncss. Morallu thia wac

ondary to chcapncss. Morally this wa.
right enough, perhaps, but, altlstically, i
was u crime. Millions of cheap pictures
badly printed and glai ing and offensive il
coloring, were thrown on the market at sc
small cost that they soon came TO be
given away as advertisements instead OF
beng sold.
"Gradual'y, however, processes were re
fined and better work was introduced, un
I'll the name abbreviated TO 'chrono' was nc
longer rcproach. There were still many
bad chromos, of course, but there were
many good ones. Now many pictures are
produced from the photographic press that
would not be out of place IN any mans
house, no matter how rich or how well edu-
Gated in art lie might be.
at is only within some twelve or thirte ~
Years, however, that efforts have been
made TO reproduce Water-Color painting A
few were made for show at the great Cen
tcnnlal exhibition of 1876, but they did not
take the public fancy, though they were
really good pictures. Improvements have
been made since, until now, such work is
done as fairly to justify the word l just
used, which was wonderful"
The photographer said he did not hesitate
to undertake work Oh approval, and that it
was quite true that the Autograph copies of
watcr-colors were often taken for originals
"5omc little time ago. he said, ''ouc of
the largest advcr. iscr9 i'll the country was
persuaded 10 order i quantity of imitation
Watcr-colOrs for advertising cards. He hest.
tatcd about doing it, saying that he did not
believe the masses of tho people cared for
such things. They preferred the shiny gloss
Of the ordinary Autograph, he believed. He
! gave lnc order, however, and as he docs
thm8S on large scale, he gave large
order for the first set of four sketches. Be.
! fore This WAS exhausted he ordered an even
| larger quantity, and this was again followed
! by an order larger than either of the pre-
vlous ones Some OF his employees noticed
mat one man curoc frequently for the pict-
| ttrcS, ASKING Tor thrc, or four sets at once
lhcy were glad to give them to him, for
the cards were only used as advertisements
and, OF course. they wanted as many as
| possible distributed. This stranger, how
Cyc9. came so often that their curiosity was
aroused and they took some pains to find
out who he was. They found that he was Il
picture frame maker on Fourth avenue, who
Was framing the cards in such way as to
A!.C tlc advertisement, and was doing q
iIoIrISlllnS business selling them at three
uUi4gS asset
Inc process Of manufacturing these re.
predictions of wIter-color drawings does
Hot dit II materially from that employed in
,.le Llt44i ng Of the heavier coored chrome,
e:iccp'lnS That very delicate work, as well
IS II careful study of faint color effects, is
reg lied Oh the part Of the lilhographcr.
y SCDlrltn al for.
color prtn;cd, and while some exquisite eff
lcct' have beeu produced in comparatively
lew prin(ings, the faithful reproduction of
more ambitious subjects often requires the
use CT liltc2n, twenty or even more Colors
or l.Ats. Il! cases where it is necessary TO
prodlcc good results III Il few printings in
orucr 10 lessen the expense Of production,
lhc most skt.fu and experienced artists
,,rc rCqJHcd, and have sem Water-coIor
.IriiW"i5j in WLich a dozen or moro tones
nj colora con.d be readily detected, repro
'uccd by The slinful handling of five or six
'oloFS, mercy 0y printing L more or less
transparent or Opaque cotOr over another as
nc "a &c might demand
Ai'cr the l,ho3rapher has carefully
studied tho original drawing before him
and lid out his pal, he makes a careful
- o'A '''iio L'~tItlt Z tlitlnD on
winch he indicates every line or shade or
Tradition, and this tracing is carefully
transferred 10 previously prepared stone.
anu serves Us key 10 the entire work
anu Tor AL t4e color stones.
The work on stone is drawn with Il
greasy black chemically prepared crayon,
winch, by the WY, has to DO sharpeped
backward Or from the point up, as it's very
1fltl5 nature will not allow of its being
'hafp'hcd III the ordinary way, The
Frea cl&yon pcnctrates the stone, which
$ hchSuLJected tou solution of gum arabic
md niirlc acid, after which it is carefully
washed off with water, The black drawing.
GoWGyGr, stul shoW hut 10 nov, -,
VaShcu from Inc lace OF tho stone with
urp2ntino, leaving the surface to all an
eardnccs as clean as when the stone first
anlc INTO the artists hands. 1t is then
ampcncd with water. The printer passes
IS roller, charged with color, over the sur
ace, and this adncrcs only where the stone
dry, or il other words, where the grease
1 the crayon island this color is transferred
rom the stone to the paper.
" lac same process is employed for the
ppIlcatlon Of each successive color. Dor
GUS OF the picture being drawn on several -
IHerent stones to obtain what may be
HE'D the composite tints, while others are
ly drawn Oh single stone, when the
DIOR i'll tho picture is TO be one of those di.
'ctly employed"
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