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Стр. 12 - Art in a chronological and systematic arrangement, it would speak powerfully to the public mind, and enable, in a practical way, the most uneducated eye to gather the lessons which ages of thought and scientific research have attempted to abstract ; and would present^ to the world for the first...
Стр. 11 - No country invests a larger amount of capital in works of Art of all kinds than England ; and in none almost is so little done for Art-education ! If the collection you propose to form were made to illustrate the history of Art in a chronological and systematic arrangement, it would speak powerfully to the public mind, and enable, in a practical way, the most uneducated...
Стр. 11 - If the collection you propose to form were made to illustrate the history of Art in a chronological and systematic arrangement, it would speak powerfully to the public mind, and enable, in a practical way, the most uneducated eye to gather the lessons which ages of thought and scientific research have attempted to abstract...
Стр. 12 - ... the first time a gallery such as no other country could produce, but for which, I feel convinced, the materials exist abundantly in private hands among us. " As far as painting is concerned, I enclose a catalogue, exhibiting all the different schools, with the masters who illustrate them, which able hands have compiled for me, and which was communicated to the National Gallery Committee of 1853, and printed by them with the evidence. " If such a catalogue for instance were to be filled up with...
Стр. 11 - ... that the Exhibition had a higher purpose than that of merely gratifying the public curiosity, and giving an intellectual entertainment to the population of a particular locality. ' A person,' he wrote, ' who would not otherwise be inclined to part with a picture would probably shrink from refusing it if he knew that his doing so tended to mar the realisation of a great national object.' A national purpose which might be appealed to, the same letter stated — ' might be found in the educational...

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