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Title: American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Montgomery, Walter
Subjects: Art Artists Art
Publisher: Boston, E.W. Walker & co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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comics. A later number has a portrait of Palmerstonand half a page of English news, suggestive (perhaps incorrectly) of importation of casts.Before the six months are out we have a full front-page engraving, portraits of Prince FredericWilliam of Prussia and the Princess Royal of England; and soon after there is a full-pageroyal Victorian drawing-room, and proper newspaper complement of portraits, scenes, fashions,and caricatures. A two-page cut of the Collins steamship astonishes us in No. 39. But neitherengraving nor printing improves at the same rate. Indeed, in this first volume there is little tonotice as,-engraving, except some good portraits from drawings by S. Wallin. It may be worthremarking that Homer and Hennessy seem to have here made their beginnings as draughtsmen.As the years go on, larger cuts, with necessarily bolder work, are ventured on. There is daring,if little art: evidence of a certain mastery of the graver gained through the larger practice,— 456 AMERICAN ART
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Engraved by Harley. — Drawn by Darley. From The Riverside Magazine. Published by Hurd & Houghlon. evidence also of always haste, that enemy of perfection. During the War much attention toart was not to be expected: the earliest news had to be cared for. Again my criticism refersonly to the engraving. The sketches of Waud, Homer, and others, do not come into my province,except so far as I may remark, while recognizing their originality and vigor, that the drawingson the wood could only be hurried, and the engraver also had to work against time. Excep-tions of course may be found. A masterly portrait of Martin Van Buren, drawn I suppose byWallin, whose portraits are always good, appears in No. 293, Vol. VI., vigorously and beautifullyengraved and as well printed. There is no engravers name to it. In 1863 (Nov. 21) I findanother good piece of large work, — the Great Russian Ball, drawn on the wood by WinslowHomer. By 1871 the improvement is very noticeable. Designs and engravings

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