The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . e public,which combine purity oi inventionwith much elegance and utility :for this we are indebted to the! improved taste of the age, whichsees the necessity of inviting theprofes ional ability of the artist inthe appropriate arrangement ofdomiciliary decoration. The ma-nufacturer finds it necessary to an-ticipate the wants of his employer,and to call for the assistance or thearts, to furnish him with such de-signs as the season and circum-stances may require: this fre-quent application to professionaltalent fo
The Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions and politics . e public,which combine purity oi inventionwith much elegance and utility :for this we are indebted to the! improved taste of the age, whichsees the necessity of inviting theprofes ional ability of the artist inthe appropriate arrangement ofdomiciliary decoration. The ma-nufacturer finds it necessary to an-ticipate the wants of his employer,and to call for the assistance or thearts, to furnish him with such de-signs as the season and circum-stances may require: this fre-quent application to professionaltalent for correct design, induc-es artists of the higher order tobend themselves to it, and sub-mit the luxuriant production oftheir imaginations to the practicalexperience of the manufacturingtradesman. Tins is highly credit-able to both parties; it marks thetaste of the latter, and the desireof the former to render his pencilmore diffusively useful. But wemust refer all this to its realsource—the munificent encourage-ment afforded by the higher late glorious events which. EXHIBITION OF PAINTERS IN OIL AND WATER COLOURS. •2-3 have so thickly crowded on us,give a new spur to such design for a suit of draperywindow-curtains, represented inour present plate, is producedunder the inspection of Morganand Sanders, of Catherine-strei t,Strand, who so constantly distin-guish themselves as indefatigablecaterers for the public taste. Thewhole design and colouring of thedraperyare correct and azure and white, which may hesprinkled with lilies, are the co-lours of the legitimate dynasty ofFrance, and are beautifully cor-respondent with the opening sea-son. The eagle of Russia sur-mounts the whole, in allusion bothto the superiority she has obtained in arms, and in just complimentto her magnanimous forbearance,and her noble and respectful con-duct towards the French capital, ast of the Inn- arts. The dovessporting with laurel, the victory,
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