ART AND ARTISTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 2104, 21 June 1894, Page 41

ART AND ARTISTS.

Sir Edward Burne-Jones, the last of the art baronets, is said to- have an income of £15,000 a year.

Whenever Mr Whistler, the artist, sits down to dinner in his own house, a beautif uUy-made ivory birdcage, containing several little songsters, is placed on the table as a decoration.

Mr George Halse, the well-known sculptor of the " Discovery of Australia," of which a replica stands in the Royal Colonial Institute, has a novel in the press entitled " Phil Hathaway's Failures."

Rosa Bonheur's evenings at By, near Moret, where she has mado her home, are spent in reading and study, or in the enlargement of photographs which divulge to her the secrets of certain quick, furtive movements of animals, which it would be otherwise almost hopeless to obtain.

Mr George Wade, the sculptor, says that to make one perfect pair of arms for his Aphrodite he had to take five models, and select the best points in the arms of each to make up a composite model. The most gracefnlly-rounded arms, Mr Wade says, are to be found in working women — i c , women who do household work.

When one comes to consider the matter, what myriads of old blocks, impressions of which have appeared in the papers of to-day, will go down to our descendants. And no doubt there will be collectors of such things 100 years hence, as there are now of old wood blocks which are hundreds of years old Only the other day a book was published the plates in which were engraved from the original cuts made by Albert Durer nearly 4UO years ago. These blocks a few years ago were sold to an Eaglish gentleman for an insignificant sum, though they arc masterpieces of their kind. Only a short while ago a friend of the writer's employed a small j 3bbing printer in the country to do some work. A conversation about the procuriag of aomo second-hand blocks occurred, and the printer said that he himself with the business, and some 50 years back, had bought for a few coppers a box of old engravings. These were produced — and changed hands. They were the original plates of a very celebrated book, and a sum of lOOgs has been offered for them by a colleotor. An engraving, of wood or otherwise, seems a particularly durable article, but yet the number of such remaining to us from past times is by no means large. A gentleman stopping at an inn in Wensleydale a few years back saw the landlord heaping the fire with shapely pieces of wood. He took one of these up and looked at it — a most scarce and valuable wood block. He rescued about a dozen from the flames and bought them for sixpence. They are the original woodcuts of a rare book published more than 100 years ago, and are worth hundreds of pinnd*.

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