NEW STYLE OF LITHOGRAPHY : BRUSH - TINTING Tux grand desideratum is
lithography, the power of producing on stone, by liquid washes with the brush, tints that will yield impressions, has at length been attained. This important extensions of the capabili- ties of lithography is owing to the ingenuity and perseverance of Mr. IIeLiztaszont., whose previous improvements had given an entirely new character to the art This last invention, however, solves a pro- blem that, like the squaring of' the circle in geometry, was deemed im- practicable, and had been abandoned as hopeless indeed it is the most important discovery connected with the reproductive arts since that of lithography itself: It places in the hands of the painter a meaus of multiplying his original sketches in the same way that he produeed them on the paper, without changiug or fettering his mode of hand- ling ; the brush and liquid ink being applied to the stone, just the same as in washes of sepia. Every variety of tint and texture may be pro- duced on the stone, with the addition of touchc:=. of chalk or ink outline, if required ; and in the impression the tints appear at once solid and luminous, rich and sharp. It is suitable to the 'nest free and r; mid style, as well as the most neat and careful ; and delicate as are the gradations and pure the quality of the tints, they are nevertheless hardy and firm, susceptible of modulation and after- touches, and bear the print- ing process well.
These characteristics, and one more beau:iful than all—namely, tone—are exemplified in souse trials of the new material made by Mr.
HA ; wino is in raptures with the fiscility and power of' the means and the certainty and beautiful effect of' the result : indeed, every artist who has seen a specimen of brush-tinting, is struck with its marvellous qualities, and the celerity and daring manner of working. By the stamping process, the appearance of sepia drawing was itnitatei, but whit a different material ; here the like effects are produced by the same means : in a word, what lithography has hitherto beeu to the draughtsman, it is now become to the painter. Mr. HeLLMANDEL has taken out a pnuent for his invention, and sscci-
mens of the new style will soon be made public ; when, we Ivry:tin from further remarks. .
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