DOMINION MUSEUM.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 737, 9 February 1910, Page 6

DOMINION MUSEUM.

gSOME raTBREOTNa'ApDiTiONS,; : : has recently re'-': ceived fifteen -circnlar wedgwood' medalr lions representing.,aii."Arab-horse inVyari-; ous positions,'; inVwhite;. ph.' the .usual .pale ■blue wedgwodd-.gr'punii.?!',They. weie . originally;.executed ..by :;George.v>.Stabbs,. : ;.a ; . celebrated artist," who,/,;floarished Kiroin. 1724 . to'lßoG, and who was specially.-:, noted for .the anatomical accuracy of his studiesof horsesJ:, A. great .many: of,his drawings ; of ;■ horses /.and;- other ■■ animals ~'-af tenraids came ,into ! - the.i.possession ?' : of Lahdseer.; Stubba': was .employed : .by;. Wedgwood ",i to i'mpdeli.'the series.Vof-/..representations!-: ior ithese: medallions.' 'Most' of "them are taken; frqin a celebrated horse; , which- was known as;.the ; .Godolphui: Ajabian. They -are ex.'tremely ■ life-like, - though : occasionally: the artist has improved. on. Nature," in depicting :a position,' for v the-sake ,of graceful, 'effect,;-V;. .-;■ : i. ■■';.■■..-.:: v;-.; ; j ■' ■

; "Jndge* v ßatham'!has.presented' -to "■:. the. mnseum ; i'fitty-six;plEster ; .cftsts'"' represent.: ing' a number of fine Eomah' medals : from the Vatican collection: .' They, were made by Jud^;Batham,fronvsome.glass,moulds "belonging, .to Mr.. A; ;E.' Bloxany of. Christ-'; .church:;; The; series /is- a' representative one, arid; includes'some 'of .the best-'specif mens of the : art.of.the-medallist in the\ days of the Eoman /Empire; Many great personages .are figured'on them; together with emblems .of ; ; the Eoman;power. : ' ;, ...A/very \good'spe'ciineh::has been . pr&.sented to '.the; museum oi : : the •coloured lithograph ■'.■which I ■."was. , issued 'after- the opening , of-'-.the^Otaki , 'Maori:.'Church ./.in 1551.. The,lithograph.gives'a , good impression of .the interior. qf,th'e building, -with groups of "seated on t ft e noor listening td'thepreacher.'' In ; view, of the lecent , restoration of the church, this pic-, turp. is. especially: interesting.' ;.. " ; \ ,