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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
The Editor of this work, M. Dupont-Auberville, is known as one of the most distinguished archæologists of modern France, and Textile Art is the department of archæology to which he has devoted the best years of his life. His collection of specimens of textile fabrics embraces models taken from all ages and from all countries, and is admitted by all artists to be unique in every respect.
The works of ancient textile art, both in the East and the West, are done full justice to, but at the same time the framer of “Ornamental Textile Fabrics” has drawn more amply from the extensive stock of models belonging to more recent periods. From his immense collection of specimens taken from the Renaissance and the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, he has selected those subjects which are most worthy of the attention both of the amateur and the manufacturer. In this manner the work now submitted to the public is not a mere ornamental one, but at the same time it possesses a practical usefulness which must cause it to be valued by all who make a study of taste in manufacturing industry in general, and the art of weaving in particular.
AN ENTIRELY NEW AND REVISED EDITION.
Old Print Collectors’ Guide:
An Introduction to the Study and Collection of Ancient Prints. Frontispiece, plates of monograms, and illustrations. By Wm. H. Willshire. Handsomely printed. 2 large vols. demy 8vo, half morocco, gilt top, $11.00.
∴ This new edition entirely supersedes the previous one, having, in addition to much new matter, full lists of Monograms and marks of celebrated collectors and amateurs. A work indispensable to the Print Collector, being a concentration in one volume of all the varied information relative to the History of Engraving and of Ancient Prints.
Contents.—
I. Engraving in Ancient Times.
II. Engraving in General, from the beginning of the 13th to the 15th Century.
III. On the Various Processes or kinds of Engraving.
IV. Advice on the Study and Collection of Prints.
V. The Various Schools of Engraving.
VI. The Northern Schools to the time of Dürer.
VII. Northern Schools from Dürer to the 17th Century.
VIII. The Southern Schools of Wood Engraving.
IX. The Masters of “Chiaro oscuro.”
X. Metal Engraving. Masters of 1446, etc.
XI. Dutch and Flemish Schools.
XII. French and English Schools.
XIII. Chief Etchers of the Northern Schools.
XIV. On Engraving in the “Dotted Manner.”
XV. The Southern Schools of Engraving on Metal. Nielli.
XVI. Italian Schools.
XVII. School of Marc Antonio.
XVIII. Chief Etchers of the Italian Schools.
XIX. Mezzotinto Engravings and Engravers.
XX. On the Examination and Purchase of Ancient Prints.
XXI. On the Conservation and Arrangement of Prints. Appendix.—British Museum Collection, Douce Collection, Oxford, Polytypage, Cliché, Mezzotinto Engraving, High-priced Books, Varia Bibliography, Monograms, indexes, etc., etc.
The Works of William Unger.
A Series of Seventy-two Etchings after the Old Masters. With Critical and Descriptive Notes by C. Vosmaer. Comprising the most celebrated paintings of the following artists: Tintoretto, Ruysdael, Rembrandt, Guido, Poussin, Rubens, Ostade, Jan Steen, Van Dyck, Wouvermans, Paul Potter, Frans Hals, Veronese, Jordaens, Van der Velde, Brouwer, etc., etc.
Ten parts folio, 16 × 22 inches, printed on heavy Dutch paper, $60.00. Or half morocco, extra gilt top, elegant and substantial, $80.00.
“No engraver who ever lived has so completely identified himself with painters he had to interpret as Professor Unger in the seventy-two plates which compose his ‘Works.’ He can adopt at will the most opposite styles, and work on each with ease, a fluency such as other men can only attain in one manner—their own—and after half a lifetime. Indeed, one would not be going far wrong to describe Professor Unger as an art critic of very uncommon insight, who explains the sentiment and execution of great painters with an etching needle instead of a pen.
“It has been said of engraving that it is an unintellectual occupation, because it is simply copyism; but such engraving as this is not unintellectual, for it proves a delicacy and keenness of understanding which are both rare among artists and critics. Unger has not the narrowness of the ordinary artist, for he can enter into the most opposite styles; nor has he the technical ignorance of the ordinary critic, for he can draw—I will not say like a great master, but like twenty different great masters.
“Mr. Vosmaer, the now well-known Dutch critic, who writes in English and French as well as in his own language, has much increased the interest in Unger’s etchings by accompanying them with a valuable biographic essay of his own, much superior to the ordinary ‘letter-press,’ which publishers in general appear to consider as a necessary companion to engraving.
“The seventy-two etchings before us are, on the whole, the most remarkable set of studies from old masters which has been issued by the enterprise of our modern publishers, and they can hardly fail to make fine work better appreciated both by artists and amateurs.
“A few words of praise are due to the spirited publisher, Mr. Sijthoff, of Leyden, for the manner in which these etchings of Unger have been published. They are printed on fine Dutch paper, and mounted (pasted by the upper edge only) on sufficiently good boards in such a manner as to enter into the most carefully arranged collections without further change. They are accompanied by a text printed with the greatest taste, on very fine Dutch paper. This series is printed in one class of proof only, and issued at a price that is most reasonable, and Mr. Sijthoff deserves our thanks for placing works of real art, thoroughly well got up, within the reach of cultivated people who have limited incomes.
“We recommend them strongly to all artists and lovers of art as a valuable means of art education and a source of enduring pleasure.”—Hamerton in the International Review for Jan., 1876.
Etchings after Frans Hals.
A Series of 20 beautifully executed Etchings. By William Unger. With an Essay on the Life and Works of the artist, by C. Vosmaer. Two parts, complete, royal folio. Impressions on India paper, $25.00. Selected proofs, before letters, on India paper, $40.00. Artist proofs on India paper, $60.00. Or elegantly bound in half Levant morocco, extra, gilt top, $15.00 additional to the above prices. Uniform with Unger’s works.
“They who know the Dutch painter Hals only through the few portraits by him which have reached this country have but a slight comparative acquaintance with his works. ‘A stranger to all academical lore, to all literary co-operation,’ writes Mr. Vosmaer, ‘Frans Hals appeared merely as a portrait-painter, like most of the modern artists of his youth ... true to life, but also excelling by naturalness and masterly handling. Subsequently he portrayed the joyous popular life of the streets and the tavern; at last those phases of national social life, which have at once their image and memorial in the pictures of the arquebusiers and the civic governors.’”—London Art Journal, Aug. 1873.