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...volumes of "Picturesque Travel in France" opened to pages by Bonington and Fragonard's son Alexandre Evariste are supplemented by other lithographs from the same publication showing the historical and geographical curiosity of the century ushered in by Napoleon's conquests. Bonington, the English youth who spent the last half of the twenty-seven full years of his life in France, raised lithography to a new height, well illustrated by the "Rue du Gros Horloge, Rouen." Gericault's studies of horses form striking foils to the more dramatic lithographs of Delacroix, also represented by two water-colors...
...group of landscape sketches by some of the lesser known figures of the seventeenth century in Holland are included in the exhibition. America is represented by Webster, La Farge, Wyant, and Whistler. The English school is also represented by only a few examples, among which are a Bonington seascape, an early Turner watercolor, and a drawing by Muirhead Bone...
...exhibition illustrating the history of artistic lithography will open in the print-room of the Fogg Art Museum this morning, to remain for several weeks. Among the prints shown are figure subjects and landscapes by Whistler, architectural subjects by Bonington, landscapes by Isabey, animals by Rosa Bonheyr, subjects connected with Napoleonic Wars by Raffet, and caricatures by Daumier. In addition to lithographs belonging to the Fogg Museum, prints have been lent for this exhibition by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Mr. FitzRoy Carrington; Dr. Denman W. Ross '75; and Mr. Paul J. Sachs...