DOI Heft:
No. 69 (December 1898)
DOI Artikel:Reviews of recent publications
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19230#0236
Reviews of Recent Publications
by photogravure and other
processes. All are excellent,
and the volume is one which
cannot fail to give pleasure
to every lover of art.
Masters of Mezzotint. By
Alfred Whitman. With
sixty illustrations. (London :
G. Bell and Sons.) £2 2s.
net.—That no consecutive
account of the rise and pro-
gress of mezzotint engraving
in the British Isles has
hitherto appeared is justly
claimed by the author as a
sufficient excuse for the pro-
duction of this book. Mr.
Whitman has taken up his
subject seriously, and gives
not only an excellent his-
torical account of it from its
invention in 1642 to the pre-
sent time, but also has added
a useful chapter in which the
technical methods of mezzo-
tint are discussed and illus-
trated. The numerous plates
have been well reproduced
in collotype, and include ex-
amples by fifty-one different
engravers after thirty-four
painters, besides subjects
painted and engraved by the
mezzotinters themselves. As
the art of the etcher is one "ernesta." by cecilia beaux, from " catalogue of the exhibition
, . , , , r . of international art." (london : w. heinemann)
m which the study ol the
convention and capabilities
of " line" is of first importance, that of the mezzo- of articles by various writers upon the twelve
tinter may be considered to be essentially connected following Dutch painters of the nineteenth cen-
with the problems of "tone." In these days, when tury : Bosboom, Rochussen, Bles, Roelofs, Israels,
"tone value" is appreciated upon its own merit as an Henrietta Ronner, Weissenbruch, Alma Tadema,
artistic requirement, it is strange that mezzotinting Stortenbeker, Bisschop, Gabriel, and Miss Sande
is not more widely practised. The capabilities of Bakhuyzen. Each article is accompanied by a
the process do not appear to have been nearly series of illustrations of the work of the respective
exhausted. On the contrary, they undoubtedly artists, the best of which are the etched plates
afford an ample field for the display of individual by that talented Dutch etcher, Mr. Ph. Zilcken.
talent, and the expression of new and beautiful Of the paintings illustrated, a word of especial
art-truths. Both to the artist and to the amateur commendation is due to the photogravure after
Mr. Whitman's work will be of great value. the picture by Christopher Bisschop, entitled Sun-
Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century, shine in Heart and Home, the original of which
Edited by Max Rooses. With six etchings by is now at the Pinakothek in Munich. We under-
Ph. Zilcken, six photogravure plates and numerous stand that the publishers contemplate issuing
other illustrations. (London : Sampson Low, further similar volumes dealing with the work of
Marston & Co., Ltd.)—This work consists of a series other notable Dutch painters.
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by photogravure and other
processes. All are excellent,
and the volume is one which
cannot fail to give pleasure
to every lover of art.
Masters of Mezzotint. By
Alfred Whitman. With
sixty illustrations. (London :
G. Bell and Sons.) £2 2s.
net.—That no consecutive
account of the rise and pro-
gress of mezzotint engraving
in the British Isles has
hitherto appeared is justly
claimed by the author as a
sufficient excuse for the pro-
duction of this book. Mr.
Whitman has taken up his
subject seriously, and gives
not only an excellent his-
torical account of it from its
invention in 1642 to the pre-
sent time, but also has added
a useful chapter in which the
technical methods of mezzo-
tint are discussed and illus-
trated. The numerous plates
have been well reproduced
in collotype, and include ex-
amples by fifty-one different
engravers after thirty-four
painters, besides subjects
painted and engraved by the
mezzotinters themselves. As
the art of the etcher is one "ernesta." by cecilia beaux, from " catalogue of the exhibition
, . , , , r . of international art." (london : w. heinemann)
m which the study ol the
convention and capabilities
of " line" is of first importance, that of the mezzo- of articles by various writers upon the twelve
tinter may be considered to be essentially connected following Dutch painters of the nineteenth cen-
with the problems of "tone." In these days, when tury : Bosboom, Rochussen, Bles, Roelofs, Israels,
"tone value" is appreciated upon its own merit as an Henrietta Ronner, Weissenbruch, Alma Tadema,
artistic requirement, it is strange that mezzotinting Stortenbeker, Bisschop, Gabriel, and Miss Sande
is not more widely practised. The capabilities of Bakhuyzen. Each article is accompanied by a
the process do not appear to have been nearly series of illustrations of the work of the respective
exhausted. On the contrary, they undoubtedly artists, the best of which are the etched plates
afford an ample field for the display of individual by that talented Dutch etcher, Mr. Ph. Zilcken.
talent, and the expression of new and beautiful Of the paintings illustrated, a word of especial
art-truths. Both to the artist and to the amateur commendation is due to the photogravure after
Mr. Whitman's work will be of great value. the picture by Christopher Bisschop, entitled Sun-
Dutch Painters of the Nineteenth Century, shine in Heart and Home, the original of which
Edited by Max Rooses. With six etchings by is now at the Pinakothek in Munich. We under-
Ph. Zilcken, six photogravure plates and numerous stand that the publishers contemplate issuing
other illustrations. (London : Sampson Low, further similar volumes dealing with the work of
Marston & Co., Ltd.)—This work consists of a series other notable Dutch painters.
208