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Fine Arts
FIFE ARTS
There is now exhibiting at Mr . - . . Dickinson ' s gallery , in Bond-street , one of the most remarkable pictures of the day—the " Great Fall , Niagara , " by Mr . Frederick W . Church , of New York . There would appear to be no more difficult task than that of reproducing on canvas running water with any appearance of truth ; but how much more difiicult must it be to show the effect upon water hurrying to falls such as are the distinguishing characteristics of Niagara . Yet all these
difficulties , by patient assiduity , artistic genius , and a true painter ' s feeling , Mr . Church has overcome ; so that we can almost imagine we are looking upon the very scene itself , whilst all previous views of Niagara have given us no other idea than that the subject was too grand for the painter to understand or represent . Mr . Church ' s picture is about eight feet long hy four deep , and the view is taken from the Canadian side , a little above Table Bock , so as to include the whole of the Horse Shoe Fall to the corner of Goat Island . One of the
remarkable characteristics of this picture is , that there is no shore visible in the foreground , the spectator looking at once upon the expanse of mighty waters as they rush , eddying onward , to the fall . The appearance of the trunk of a shattered tree ; as it is thrown about by opposing eddies—the rocks breaking the waters in their fall into numerous and increasing cascades—and the playing of the rainbow—all are wonderfully marked , and renders this , as we have stated , one of the most remarkable pictures of the day . It is about to be reproduced in chromo-lithography by Messrs . Day and Son , of LincohVs-inn Fields , the
lithographers to the Queen , who will publish it at a price which will bring it within the reachof a large body of the patrons of art . To show how closely it may be thus copied , we need only refer to another recent publication in bhromodithography by the Messrs . Day—" Early Days of H . E . H . the Princess Eoyal / ' by Sir Edwin Landseer . The infant princess is represented as playing with a favourite greyhound of her Majesty ; and the truthfulness of the finished lithograph to the original is
certainly wonderful—not a line , not a touch of the artist ' s brush being lost . This is the more extraordinary , when we consider that , in order to produce this picture , U has to be worked upon thirty-four separate stones , each of which produces something towards the general effect , from the faintest outline to the completed work of art . Specimens of the picture , in each of its gradations , are exhibited , which are indeed most curious to trace .
The Week
THE WEEK
Her Majesty gave a grand evening concert at Buckingham Palace on Monday , to which more than 400 members of the nobility and gentry were invited . Her Majesty , with the Prince Consort , attended the performances at Her Majesty ' s Theatre on Tuesday . On Wednesday there was a drawing room , at which upwards of 26 * 0 ladies were presented to the Queen . On Thursday an addition was
made to the royal party by the arrival of the Queen of Portugal and suite on a visit to her Majesty . There was a court and privy council on Friday , when tho Duke of Devonshire was sworn in as lord-lieutenant of the county of Derby . On Saturday the Queen , Prince Consort , Queen of Portugal , Princess Alice , and party , paid an early visit to the Crystal Palace , and appeared much pleased by the singing of the children of the National Bohools , who were rehearsing for the after-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Fine Arts
FIFE ARTS
There is now exhibiting at Mr . - . . Dickinson ' s gallery , in Bond-street , one of the most remarkable pictures of the day—the " Great Fall , Niagara , " by Mr . Frederick W . Church , of New York . There would appear to be no more difficult task than that of reproducing on canvas running water with any appearance of truth ; but how much more difiicult must it be to show the effect upon water hurrying to falls such as are the distinguishing characteristics of Niagara . Yet all these
difficulties , by patient assiduity , artistic genius , and a true painter ' s feeling , Mr . Church has overcome ; so that we can almost imagine we are looking upon the very scene itself , whilst all previous views of Niagara have given us no other idea than that the subject was too grand for the painter to understand or represent . Mr . Church ' s picture is about eight feet long hy four deep , and the view is taken from the Canadian side , a little above Table Bock , so as to include the whole of the Horse Shoe Fall to the corner of Goat Island . One of the
remarkable characteristics of this picture is , that there is no shore visible in the foreground , the spectator looking at once upon the expanse of mighty waters as they rush , eddying onward , to the fall . The appearance of the trunk of a shattered tree ; as it is thrown about by opposing eddies—the rocks breaking the waters in their fall into numerous and increasing cascades—and the playing of the rainbow—all are wonderfully marked , and renders this , as we have stated , one of the most remarkable pictures of the day . It is about to be reproduced in chromo-lithography by Messrs . Day and Son , of LincohVs-inn Fields , the
lithographers to the Queen , who will publish it at a price which will bring it within the reachof a large body of the patrons of art . To show how closely it may be thus copied , we need only refer to another recent publication in bhromodithography by the Messrs . Day—" Early Days of H . E . H . the Princess Eoyal / ' by Sir Edwin Landseer . The infant princess is represented as playing with a favourite greyhound of her Majesty ; and the truthfulness of the finished lithograph to the original is
certainly wonderful—not a line , not a touch of the artist ' s brush being lost . This is the more extraordinary , when we consider that , in order to produce this picture , U has to be worked upon thirty-four separate stones , each of which produces something towards the general effect , from the faintest outline to the completed work of art . Specimens of the picture , in each of its gradations , are exhibited , which are indeed most curious to trace .
The Week
THE WEEK
Her Majesty gave a grand evening concert at Buckingham Palace on Monday , to which more than 400 members of the nobility and gentry were invited . Her Majesty , with the Prince Consort , attended the performances at Her Majesty ' s Theatre on Tuesday . On Wednesday there was a drawing room , at which upwards of 26 * 0 ladies were presented to the Queen . On Thursday an addition was
made to the royal party by the arrival of the Queen of Portugal and suite on a visit to her Majesty . There was a court and privy council on Friday , when tho Duke of Devonshire was sworn in as lord-lieutenant of the county of Derby . On Saturday the Queen , Prince Consort , Queen of Portugal , Princess Alice , and party , paid an early visit to the Crystal Palace , and appeared much pleased by the singing of the children of the National Bohools , who were rehearsing for the after-