Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-22
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tatfon as an etcher. and In the latters is
the famous Dowdeswen set of twenty-six
prints. OF which tn 1886 thirty sets were is
sued at nifty guineas each
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Archaeologists have been given interest
Ing material for consideration recently by
the unearthing Of village and cemetery
In the valley of the Sarno. near San Mar
zano. Italy. A Roman house of the period
of Augustus was found in fair condition and
a considerable number of funeral urns
archaic bronzeS. Greek and Campanian
vases and Italian terra cottas added to the
worlds collection Of antiquities. The exca-
vations were made under the direction of
the Naples Museum, and the discovery takes
on special Importance inasmuch as 1t Is sup
posed to point to another and heretofore un-
recorded eruption of Mt Vesuvius.
The prize Of $500 offered by the Ma
tional Woman's Christian Temperance
Union for the best design for a drinking
fountain symbolizing the work of the
ganizatfon. to be erected at the louisiana
purchase exposition. has been awarded to
Miss Elsie Ward. a native Of Missouri. who
studied at the New York League under Mr.
st. Gaudens and in Paris. The design Is
described as a draped figure Of a woman.
typffying purity. carrying a child along
the paths Of temperance and righteousness.
One of the special features OF the St.
Louis exposition win be colonnade Of
states one Thousand feet long. consisting OF
two rows OF Ionic columns. sixty-five feet
high, supporting massive entablature. In
the arcs formed by these columns. seated
and draped. female figures. twenty feet In
height, symbolizing the several states and
territories are to be placed, each Of which
is supposed to have been designed and
modelled by different sculptor.
Ernest w. Keyser of Baltimore has been
commissioned to execute bust OF William
B. Barry, late president of the board OF
trustees Of the Maryland Institute for the
Deaf at Frederick, for the institute. 1t Is
to be little more than life size. and will
be given as a memorial by the State Asso-
ciatlon for the Deaf.
An effort is being made by some citizens
of Hartford. Conn. to raise a sufficient
fund to erect a statue to Robert Burns in
Bushnell Park According to the accepted
design by Henry Bryant a bronze figure of
the Scotch bard. clad in the garb of a
farmer. Is to be set on a pedestal Of red
Scotch granite. which is to have a base of
gray Quincy stone. Apparently the world
has gone mad on the subject of bronze
effigies. and civic art societies have an III
creasingiy large mission to fulfill.
At Christie's. in London. recently Gains
boroughs portrait of Capt. Wade was sold
for $4,000. and smaller canvas by the
same painter. portrait of a man in a
green coat, brought $500. Sir Joshua Rey-
nolds' likeness of Francis. Marquis of Ia
ristock. sold for $500. and After the
Storm" painting by Joseph Israels fetch
ed $500.
Mr.. George Vanderbilt has just commits
stoned Miss Helen Maitland Armstrong to
design stained glass window I'm memory
of the late Paul Leicester Ford to be placed
in All Saints Church at Biltmore N. c. The
subject will be the entombment of Christ
and the window Is the seventh that Miss
Armstrong has designed for that church