Official catalogue of the British section.

  • Great Britain. Executive Commission, Philadelphia International Exhibition (1876)
Date:
1876
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    64/856 (page 56)
    « Brompton Boilers were but a rade husk for so sweet a kernel but as the pS ays, Borne was uot built in a day, so it required tune for the tru h o triumph ; now the casket is worthy of the gems, and of nomstitution in our laud are Englishmen more proud than of our great Art Museum. It was the schoolmaster at W, it taught the masses tough.^eyes, * Ileus consisting of gifts and purchases to the extent of 9000L from the Exhibition of '51, bit by bit it was built up, treasure by treasure J was added to, no large sums were voted for xVj here was a rl there a <nft or a bequest, until in this present day it recalls Tml ' foa^res thf Green Vault, of Dresden or the Imperial Treasury of V enna It was the first to realise the fact that for women ther 11 occupations than the needle, whether that of the httle steel 2tt , the sewing machine, or the telegraph, and the results are everywhe* apparent in the porcelain of Minton, in the black and white deigns of the Sated papers, in the Boll Call and the - Quatre Bras' of M.ss ThreTage has had its collectors, but also its disperse, the hammer of ulaucloneer has been as fatal in its effects as that of the iconoclast, a week has dispersed the accumulation of a lifetime, or un er v urable circumstance the besom of the housemaid has been frecpien y ,\ r o.^pnl.rfuleambols of the domestic cat or the fire caused as destructive as the playfa fc g> & by the melting f °[^?™^nnB art are massed together, not to be thing of the past; tods London «a pleasant eity to sack, separated again until an invader^tnd appreciate their whilst still artistic wealth hberaily to ^ C^tr^^ thus makefile beggar wealthy as the King, for both can but enjoy. wu,,tinn that of 1802 was a rival even Loan collections have of Marie Stuarfc, the mitre to its mighty neighbour, ^ ^ ^ ^ of a Beckett, and the ^t-JJ-g Collection of Historical Portraits in 180b, b/, ana uo j nJ+aft* from the carl est periods to Macaulay. In the 1C38, many as apocryphal ^ ^ ^y Lkespeares, and illustrating such genume works as the Ch»do andL |^ ^ ^ thoroughly the great (great m lts hteratme of which rml th„s- has chronicled this Exhibition well in some veises, two