Title

Our friend the Critic has found a fresh subject where upon to vent his acerbous humour, viz. Mr. Earle's Lithography.

Author

The Monitor.

Details

The Monitor, 6 January 1827, page 2, column 1.

Publication date

6 January 1827

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

OUR friend the Critic has found a fresh subject where upon to vent his acerbous humour, viz. Mr. Earle's Lithography. Mr. E. has favoured the public with his second number of "Views in Australia,"—"Sydney, from Pinchgut Island," taken at the time of the Warspite coming to anchor, with the Volage and Fly in perspective, and "Sydney Lighthouse" or "Macquarie Tower." We are always happy to mark the progress of improvement, more especially in the advancement of the Fine Arts, and there is improvement in the Lithographic Art as exhibited by Mr. Earle, we cheerfully acknowledge to exist in the first mentioned view. There is however still a mellowness of colouring water colours are capable of diffusing, is more peculiarly striking—the hull of the Warspite wants symmetry, particularly in the formation of the stern. The perspective in our judgment might be more correct, Dawes' Battery not having a just proportion to Macquarie Fort. Passing to the Lighthouse, the eye is met by a view at once landscape and marine, bold and striking, and the approaching tempest better accords with the Artist's style of colouring than the placidity of a summer sky. The locality of the scene is accurate to a, nicety; the objects are all natural, and we are inclined to pronounce the piece unexceptionable. Mr. Earle deserves every credit for his endeavours to increase in the public favour, and to introduce this elegant art into our Australian community. [The Monitor, 6 January 1827, page 2, column 1].

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