Book of the artists American artist life, comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists: preceded by an historical account of the rise and progress of art in America . PortaSalara and over the Lake of Albano. We have alluded to the utihty, in such a country as our own, of diversi-fied labors like those which, for the most part, employ this artist. It is tobe regretted that others reap so unfair a proportion of the gains incidentto such industry. In many cases, works that owe their circulation almostentirely to the illustrations, have brought great returns to the publishers,
Book of the artists American artist life, comprising biographical and critical sketches of American artists: preceded by an historical account of the rise and progress of art in America . PortaSalara and over the Lake of Albano. We have alluded to the utihty, in such a country as our own, of diversi-fied labors like those which, for the most part, employ this artist. It is tobe regretted that others reap so unfair a proportion of the gains incidentto such industry. In many cases, works that owe their circulation almostentirely to the illustrations, have brought great returns to the publishers,who have allowed the merest stipend to the artist. In such cases the 222 American Artist Life. latter is justly entitled to a copyright remuneration. A single instanceof the manner in which a popular design may be appropriated, occurs inregard to that of the Landing of Columbus, by Chapman. It wasoriginally sketched for a drop-curtain, and then furnished as a vignettefor a newspaper for sixty-five dollars. In a few months it was reproducedin a London work, on bandboxes in the Bowery, in a tableau at theOlympic, and as a heading to the diplomas of the Madrid HistoricalSociety. COLE. EW native localities are more endeared to the lovers ofscenery where beauty and grandeur are happily combined,than the Catskill mountains. The view, indeed, from thelofty plain called Pine Orchard, whither enervated citizensrepair in summer, has been deemed too extensive for defi-nite impression. Yet it is impossible to look abroad on aclear day, from that glorious observatory of Nature, without a thrill ofdehght. The noble Hudson winds, like a silver thread, as far as the eyecan reach, and countless meadows, groves, and villages are spread out likea vast chart, eloquently significant of natural produ61;iveness and humanwell-being. Fleecy clouds, of mottled gold or saffron, pass below thespe6lator, and cast their moving shadows upon ravine and hillside. Apure and cordial air plays gratefully around h
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