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SUNRISE ON THE KOENIGS SEE, BERCHTESGADEN, BAVARIAN ALPS, BY W. C. SMITH, IN THE EXHIBITION...1864. CREATOR: J COOPER.
Sunrise on the Koenigs See, Berchtesgaden, Bavarian Alps, by W. C. Smith, in the exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1864. '...the Koenigs See...is scarcely to be surpassed for grandeur...the view the artist has selected is...looking towards Sanct Bartholomae...[a chapel] to which pilgrimages are made...and which is seen on a tongue of land to the right...The really sublimely-impressive character of the scene is due not merely to the height and magnitude of the surrounding mountains, but to their precipitousness. They fall on all sides in a sheer and sometimes perpendicular descent of 5000ft. and upwards, and then plunge into the fathomless depths of the dark-green lake, so as to have no foreland at the water's edge, and scarcely even a landing-place. The lake is rendered still more sombre and black by the dark fir-forests which clothe the sides of the precipitous hills, and are mirrored in the still lake...Far above...rises the gigantic Waitzmann, with its snow-clad double horner, and trackless clefts. The distant bells of cattle feeding on the alpine meadows are alone heard in this solitude, whose pinnacles and ridges are the peculiar haunt of the chamois. Mr. Smith has...represented this scene in the light of early day'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Sunrise on the Koenigs See, Berchtesgaden, Bavarian Alps, by W. C. Smith, in the exhibition...1864. Creator: J Cooper. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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AUTUMN ON THE LAGO MAGGIORE, BY F. DILLON, IN THE EXHIBITION OF THE BRITISH INSTITUTION, 1864. CREATOR: MASON JACKSON.
Autumn on the Lago Maggiore, by F. Dillon, in the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1864. Engraving of a painting. '...of all the painter's works...we really remember none painted with more charming gusto and hearty relish than the little piece we have engraved. It glows and palpitates with the glorious autumnal hues of the lovely Italian lago. The sunlight sleeps on the still lake...it drowsily trembles among the vine-leaves, but permeates many...in a shower of green and gold, ruby and bronze, like the chromatic chequers of stained glass; it flushes into orange the distant purple shore; it turns the blocks of the quay, broken as are the colours by reflections of the blue sky, into something beautiful almost, to the artist eye, as the opal or pearl. Well may the boatman moor his crazy battello, with its load of cool melons and gourds, screened from the hot sun by that ragged but picturesque awning, alongside the pier, and seek the far niente of the Italian's paradise prone on the earth, under the grateful shade of the pergola, exchanging the fierce blaze outside for the softer light of a sweetheart's loving eyes. And all these remindings of the sunny South, in subject and colour, are conveyed with a slight but happy facility of touch'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864. Autumn on the Lago Maggiore, by F. Dillon, in the Exhibition of the British Institution, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/THE PRINT COLLECTOR)
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