Examples of household taste . , in order to give distinction to the prize in the great racing event of the Centen-nial year, to connect the two subjects of patriotism and horses, which has beenadmirably done by the artist of Messrs. Tiffany & Co., who conceived thehappy idea of introducing Washington in the role—less familiar to us than thatof soldier or statesman—of a raiser of fine horses. Irving, in his Life of Washington, says: I have just seen Washingtons 260 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. horses; they are as good as they are beautiful, and all splendidly trained. Hetrains them himse
Examples of household taste . , in order to give distinction to the prize in the great racing event of the Centen-nial year, to connect the two subjects of patriotism and horses, which has beenadmirably done by the artist of Messrs. Tiffany & Co., who conceived thehappy idea of introducing Washington in the role—less familiar to us than thatof soldier or statesman—of a raiser of fine horses. Irving, in his Life of Washington, says: I have just seen Washingtons 260 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. horses; they are as good as they are beautiful, and all splendidly trained. Hetrains them himself. The figure of Washington is a remarkably sympathetic and expressivelikeness. His hand is resting in graceful ease upon the shoulder of thethoroughbred mare, who is leaning over a colt that bears its mothers pointsof beauty, though undeveloped, and both animals seem under the benign influ-ence of a poetical power that has won their confidence. This group was a bold attempt in silver-work, and though there are a few. Benvenulo Cellini Helmet: Italian Court. points in the modeling which we think might be improved, it ranked highamong the metal sculptures of the Exhibition. Examples of the embroidery exhibited by the Royal School of ArtNeedlework are shown on page 257. These pieces include cushions, mats andfurniture-covers, or, as they are still called in England, notwithstanding thevulgarity of the name, anti-macassars. Each of the designs here shown isthoroughly artistic, and of a character suited to the work. No attempt is madeat pictorial representation, the nearest approach to anything of the kind beingthe birds on the scroll of branches in the central piece. How much more satis-factory this is than the fashion, not yet out of date, of attempting to copynatural objects in Berlin wool! Who does not remember the animal mon- INDUSTRIAL ART 261 strosities depicted upon canvass, that we have been expected to admire ?—thegreen dogs with pink eyes, and the beasts that rese
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