Lectures on Painting and Design

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Excerpt from Lectures on Painting and Design: Fuzeli, Wilkie, Effect of the Societies on Taste, A Competent Tribunal, On Fresco, Elgin Marbles, BeautyNever was a finer Opportunity for a series of frescoes than in the Royal Exchange, to illustrate the progress of British Commerce, from the first trading of the Phwnicians, to Hong Kong: and yet, what has been the result? Baskets of ¿owers hanging over steam-packet announce ments, griffins and eagles, mermaids and tigers, roses, pinks, tulips, and daisies, in galvanic ecstasies of twist and twirl, full of talent, full of skill, but no more to do with a decorative illustration of the objects for which the build ing was erected, than if the ornaments had been taken from a tea-garden alcove at Bagnigge Wells.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.