Title

Diorama [by William Duke and Richard Johnson]

Author

Author not identified

Source

Hobart Town Courier (Hobart)

Details

20 October 1847, page 2, column 6.

Publication date

20 October 1847

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

DIORAMA. – An exhibition of unusual utility and attraction is about to be opened at the Music Hall by Messrs. Duke and Johnson. Of Mr. Duke as an artist more especially as to his skill in the arrangement of light and shade for scenic exhibition, it would be superfluous to speak. His talents are peculiarly adapted for giving effect to panoramic dioramic views, and having paid several visits to the artist’s studio, we can pronounce those already finished as very superior specimens of the art in this style of painting. Mr Johnson, as a scenic machinist, has had much experience, and as affording undoubted proofs of his ingenuity and skill, we need only refer to the admirable manner in which the machinery was constructed for the popular pantomime of the Victoria Theatre, especially the rising of the sun, and the imitation of bees, birds, &c., all of which elicited applause on every succeeding representation. The impression left on the mind of the youth by the exhibition of one dioramic and panoramic view of some famous place which fills a place in history, accompanied by all the adjuncts of scenic illusion, and a description of the remarkable events connected with it by a competent person, cannot fail to be more durable than all the information to be derived from books or any other method of tuition. We wish Messrs. Duke and Johnson a full measure of success in their arduous undertakings.

[The Courier (Hobart), 20 October 1847, p.2, col.6.]
 

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