Title

The subscribers of the Art Union of Victoria [chromolithograph after Buvelot, 'Pentland Hills.]

Author

Argus

Source

Argus (Melbourne).

Details

2 December 1876, page 7, column 3.

Publication date

2 December 1876

Type

News

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

The subscribers to the Art Union of Victoria for the current year will have reason to be pleased, we think, with the alteration which has been made in the nature of the object selected for presentation to each of them. Instead of the customary batch of photographs they will receive a large chromo-lithograph, which baa been produced in the establishment of Messrs. Sands and McDougall, from a landscape painted expressly for the committee by M. Buvelot, and representing a summer evening near the Pentland-hills. Nearly 30 lithographic stones have been required to be used in order to secure the desired effect, and the first proof, which has just been printed, promises well for the completed picture, after various points of detail shall have been modified in compliance with the artist's supervision and under his direction. The subject is characteristic and picturesque; and we understand that M. Buvelot is agreeably surprised at the fidelity with which the colouring of the original has been reproduced, as well as with the skill exhibited in the general workmanship. It is announced that subscribers' copies of the picture will be ready for delivery immediately after the annual ballot for prizes in March next.
The pictures painted by Mr. Montague for his fourth annual art-union are now on view at Messrs. Allan and Co,'s music warehouse. They are 25 in number. This artist's landscape paintings have become so familiar to the picture-buying public that it is un- necessary to do more than call attention to the fact of their exhibition, and to state that they exhibit all the striking characteristics of his former work.

[Argus (Melbourne), 2 December 1876, p.7, col.3.]
 

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