Studio: international art (45.1909)

Studio-Talk

parts of the basin of the
Zambesi, the Gold Coast,
and other remote places.

The sixteenth annual
exhibition of the Photo-
graphic Salon now being
held at the Galleries of
the Royal Society of
Painters in Water-Colours
was anticipated with more
than usual interest, owing
to the fact that an im-
portant display of auto-
chrome plates by some of
the most prominent
camera men was expected.
It must be admitted, how-
ever, that such expecta-
tions have only been
partially realised. True,
nearly seventy plates are
being shown, but inas-
much as they represent
the work of only half a
dozen men (three of whom
are responsible for no

j‘tree roots in the bank of the
ANCOBRA RIVER” BY WILLIAM CROSLEY

Crosley has during the past
twenty years pursued his
vocation chiefly in tropical
and sub-tropical countries.
A passionate lover of nature,
and especially of nature in
her wilder, untamed aspects,
he invariably, when on his
travels, jots down mementoes
of his contact with her, and
in this way his collection of
sketches has come to include
glimpses of the dense forests
that cover the foothills of the
Andes, and of the great rivers
that flow between the Cor-
dilleras of that incomparable
region ; while others have
been gathered from the Isth-
mus of Panama, the islands
of the English and French
West Indies, Matabeleland
and Mashonaland, including

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