The Iceland year-book - 01.01.1927, Blaðsíða 47

gift from himself: — „lslandiae, terrae sibi
gentiliciae, pietatis causa donavit Albertus Thor-
valdsen", as the inscription says.
It still remains to speak of Reykjavik’s greatest
attraction viz. the Art Gallery containing all the
works of Einar Jonsson (h. 1874). Some visitors
have said that alone the sight of the works of this
remarkable artist amply repai’d a voyage across the
Atlantic. No exposition of his art can he attempted
here, and this is, besides, so much the less needful
as a great deal has already been written on that sub-
ject in English. Prof. R. P. Cowl’s illuminative essay
in the Review of Reviews (London), Dec. 1922, may
be specially recommended. A volume was pub-
lished in 1925 containing well-printed reproduc-
tions of the whole collection, as well as a most lucid
appreciation, in English, of the principles of Ein-
ar Jonsson’s art. This book, Mgndir (Pictures),*
may be obtained from any Icelandic bookseller.
Illustrations of some of the artist’s works will be
found in the present issue of the Year-Book, and
of one of these — the Outlaw — an interpreta-
tion in verse by an unknown author, is subjoined :—-
Downward from the snow-clad mountains,
From the cold and icy bosom
Of old Iceland, where hot fountains
Boil and glisten in the sun;
Wandered from the lonely vastness
Of his awful rocky fastness
A poor outlaw with his son.
* See review of it (,Iceland’s Great Sculptor') in the
Review of Reviews, Feb. 1926.
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