The sun., 1919-06-29

I printed matter OF the Department o
Conservation.
The size OF the contemplated stamp
ing die is to be two inches. The de
signs should be larger, and in ordel
to permit OF satisfactory comparison
1t is suggested that they be made sil
inches. The seal should bear the
words. THE Department Of Conserva'
ton, State of Indiana" Competitors
may submit more than one design
No competitor, however. to receive
more than one OF the three prizes Of
fered. First prize, $50; second prize
$50; third prize. $40.
| Drawings should be made on What
man H. p. paper, Patent Office, Bristol
illustration board, or equal, size 10x1S
inches. One drawing on a sheet
Competitors will mark their drawings
with a device or motto and in nc
other way. This same device or motto
to appear with the name and address
OF the competitor on a card enclosed
in a plain sealed envelope and included
in the package containing the drawing
marked Design Competition" to be
addressed to William Coughlen, secre-
tary, John Heron Art Institute. In
dianapolis.
All drawing to be eligible for the
competition must reach the Johr
Heron Art Institute not later thar
July 10.
Information on the always interest
ing question of picture prices is to be
found in Maurice w. Brockwell's dis
cussion OF a landscape by Thomas
Ga!nsborough, now in the Worcester
Museum, which is TO be found in Art
in America this month. The article
In reality deals more with the eccen-
tricities of the English collector, Jo-
seph elliott, who made his fortune
from a formula for manufacturing
steel pens when they were so rare as
to sell for rs cents apiece in English
money. 1t was when he was 80 sue
cessful as to be turning out of his
factory millions Of pens every
year that he thought Of collecting pic
lures. This was in 1886. When he
died at the age Of ~, his gallery was
described as "the renowned collection
Of ancient and modern pictures and
water colors of that well known patron
of art" It was called "a complete
epitome Of the English school," 1t was
also written that "the most important
| sale in this season at Christie's and
one that first began the great rise In
the price OF modern pictures of the
English school was that of the collec-
ton formed during many years by Mr.
elliott. OF Gainsboroughs there were
twelve, all landscapes, and some very
fine examples, with one portrait"
We read that mfr. Gladstone him
| self was among the number of those
present" on the first day of the sale
This canvas did not come up until the
fourth day. when the sixty-five pic
lures offered fetched the then very
| high total of f36, $3.50, or an average OF
| 1866. Such prices were probably COM
mensurate in 1872 with those paid just
| twenty years later for the ninety-one
paintings of the Dudley Collection
which aggregated f99,654. and with
the enormous sums paid to-day. Our
Grand Landscape is found in the cata-
iogue as No. 2S4 and as measuring 81
inches by 81 inches. On April 81 1t
was knocked down for 1857, 100 to wv.
Cox Cox, in fact. purchased quite
sixty lots for different buyers. and he
evidently rated this one higher than
the sum paid. He was a near relative
of David Cox. the Birmingham painter,
whose Peace and War fetched over
$500. And such a picture was more
to the taste OF the average collector
Of that period than was a representa-
tive Gainsborough landscape. More
over. w. Cox had been the great friend
of elliott. who had consulted him re-
garding almost all his purchases. And
as a dealer he fingered on in London
until some thirty-five years ago. Our