The Photographic art-journal . e is of great beautyand incomparable vigor. One of theseimages representing the trunk of an oldtree, blasted and prostrate upon a marshyground, also 25 centimetres in breadth is ofsuch incomparable beauty that amateurswill be thrown into transports of admira-tion before it. The length of this article forces us topostpone until our next number, a noticeof the magnificent volume, * Egypt, Nubia,Palestine and Syria, serving as a textualframe work to the photographic designs ofM. Maxime Ducamp of which M. and Baudry have courageously un-dertaken the publicatio
The Photographic art-journal . e is of great beautyand incomparable vigor. One of theseimages representing the trunk of an oldtree, blasted and prostrate upon a marshyground, also 25 centimetres in breadth is ofsuch incomparable beauty that amateurswill be thrown into transports of admira-tion before it. The length of this article forces us topostpone until our next number, a noticeof the magnificent volume, * Egypt, Nubia,Palestine and Syria, serving as a textualframe work to the photographic designs ofM. Maxime Ducamp of which M. and Baudry have courageously un-dertaken the publication. From the London Art-Journal. ART EDUCATION. N taking a retrospect ofthe transactions of the pastyear the question natural-ly arises, what has beendone to promote the gene-ral diffusion and right ap-preciation of Art ? Theiuquiry is answered, and we thinksatisfactorily, by the recent lecturesof Mr. Cole the general superin-tendent, and of Mr. Redgrave, theArt-superintendent of the depart-ment of Practical Art, at Marlborough. House. The merit of the establishmentof this department is ascribed by Mr. Coleto the Prince Consort, the foremost uni-form, and consistent, though oftentimesunknown, advocate of the better educationof all classes of the people. The interesttaken by Her Majesty in its success isshown by the assignment of foity rooms inMarlborough House, for the purposes ofthe department. The grand object of theestablishment is stated to be the improve-ment of British manufactures. It wasthought at first that this would have been 144 The Photographic Art-Journal. March, effected by the Schools of Design but theexperience of many years has shown thatit is not enough to produce good designsunless the taste of the consumer is suffici-ently educated to appreciate them. UntilArt-education is more generally extended,and the principles of form, and of the har-mony and contrast of colors, are better un-derstood and acted upon by the people, inyain is it for the manufacturer to pr
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