The Photographic art-journal . ish verse. The enthusiasm forMilton, and especially for Shakspeare, waswarmer and also more intelligent than atany former time ; and Fuseli was consideredby himself and by many friends as destinedto turn this state of feeling to an excellentaccount. The first work which proved that an ori-ginal mind had appeared in England, wasthe Nightmare, exhibited in 1782. The extraordinary and peculiar geniuswhich it displayed, says one of his biogra-phers, was universally felt, and perhapsno single picture ever made a greater im-pression in this country. A very finemezzotin
The Photographic art-journal . ish verse. The enthusiasm forMilton, and especially for Shakspeare, waswarmer and also more intelligent than atany former time ; and Fuseli was consideredby himself and by many friends as destinedto turn this state of feeling to an excellentaccount. The first work which proved that an ori-ginal mind had appeared in England, wasthe Nightmare, exhibited in 1782. The extraordinary and peculiar geniuswhich it displayed, says one of his biogra-phers, was universally felt, and perhapsno single picture ever made a greater im-pression in this country. A very finemezzotinto engraving of it was scraped byRaphael Smith, and so popular did theprint become, that, although Mr. Fuselireceived only twenty guineas for the picture,the publisher made five hundred by hisspeculation. This was a subject suitableto the unbridled fancy of the painter, andperhaps to no other imagination has theFiend which murders our sleep ever ap-peared in a more poetical shape. 316 The Photographic Art-Journal. May, o appreciate the import-ance and effects of thephotographic art, as anobject of study andpractice, not only to thepractical manipulator,but to the human spe-cies generally, it is ne-cessary to become intimatewith its philosophy and his-tory, its beautiful variations,its wonderful results, and itsprobable history has been writtenoften, and nothing of importanceremains to be told; its philoso-phy is printed upon every page of ourformer volumes. So far as experimentshave gone Professor Hunt and others havedone the subject full justice ; we are, there-fore, only left the last three heads of oursubject to discuss. There are others whocould accomplish this more ably than our-selves, but we shall do the best we can, andgive others the opportunity of completingthe subject. It might be instructive and interesting toretrace, in minute detail, the natural courseand progress of the arts and sciences withthe increase of civilization, and how de-pendent th
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