ROGERS' W0073 CARVING.
In the Spectator of June the 11th 1859, we noticed the restoration, then going on, of St. Michael's Church, Cornhill, and the part which Mr. Rogers, the eminent wood-carver of Soho Square, took in it. Since that date the work has been finished, and opened under the immediate pre- sence of the Prince Consort. In order to perpetuate the gems of wood- carving executed with so much taste and feeling by his father, Mr. George Alfred Rogers has had the whole of the carved bench-ends pho- tographed, and published in a book. A more beautiful book we have scarcely ever seen ; for without colouring, or other adventitious aide, the objects carved stand out so distinctly, as to make the beholder think he is really looking upon the actual carved wood. Some of the carvings are particularly striking,—the goat in the wilderness, the pelican, a branch of a mulberry-tree, and the agony in the garden. We might, however, enumerate every piece of the work, for they are all excel- lent. And the photographic artist has done justice both to himself and the carver. There are notes in the book touching every subject, plea- aantly rendered.
"The Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice, ever since 1822, when it became possessor of the Raphael drawings, and, therefore, many years before Mr. Morris Moore exhibited here side by side it the painting of Apollo and Mar- syns, of the same design as the drawing of that subject, has never doubted that this drawing was the work of Raphael ; since both by deceased and living connoisseurs it was ever recognized as being by the hand of the divine painter. Therefore it was that, in the Academie Council on the 6th of the past month of March, it was by a unanimity, of votes, resolved to erase the name Benedetto .1fontagna written beneath it; and this was at once con- scientiously done. " This notice will also serve as a guide to whoever may possess the phsott;:t graph recently taken from that drawink under which photoirraph gl appears the name, Benedetto Montagna. —Gazette U.Pude dsfremezia" April 13th 1860.
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