FIFTH ANNUAL MEETING. 5P 



Lithographers, steel engravers, copper-plate engravers, map en- 

 gravers, bank-note engravers, card engravers, seal engravers, and so 

 forth ad infinitum, are in constant demand. The Director of the 

 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts says : ''Skill in drawing is a key 

 that admits to a wider range of art than I can readily enumerate, 

 and successful and profitable employment in engraving depends on 

 that'' Further, he says that " Whatever branch of the Fine Arts is 

 to be followed, there are three requisites. The first is drawing, the 

 second is drawing., and the third is drawing." In short, the indus- 

 trial appliances of art are almost innumerable. The occupation into 

 which it does not enter to some extent is an exception. Take a 

 very simple example. Color-blindness is a more common misfortune 

 than ordinarily supposed. The color-s generally confused are green 

 and red; yet these are the very ones used as railroad signals. So 

 that a great railroad catastrophe may be the result of a locomotive 

 engineer not having " an eye for color." 



It is little estimated how much Art has to do with the politics of 

 the day. The Tammany Rijig owes the contempt now felt for its 

 corruption principally to Nast's caricatures of Tweed, Sweeny, and 

 others. 



Mr. Greeley's defeat was in a great measure owing to the comic 

 pages of the illustrated newspapers. 



This power of caricature may be more fully appreciated by a study 

 of the Masters in this department. 



Cruikshank, the accepted portrayer of Dickens's characters — Gus- 

 tavus Dore, is unrivaled here. Chane, the author of the comicalities 

 in Le Mode Illustri, is intensely humorous, while nothing can equal 

 the delicate wit of Paul Kanewka's Silhouettes. The artist who 

 takes off society life for Punch is irresistible. 



The close connection that exists between Art and Literature is 

 shown by the fact that so many authors illustrate their own works. 

 Hood did so, and Thackeray is almost as noted an artist as an author. 

 It would be hard to tell in which department to class Ruskin. In- 

 deed, the same qualities and the same culture are required for each; 

 both must be keen observers and highly imaginative. Take a dirty 

 roadside pond as an example. An ordinary man knows that it is 

 muddy and sees nothing but mud, and would express it on canvas 

 by a great brown daub. 



"A great painter sees beneath and behind the brown surface what 

 will take him a day's work to follow, and he follows it, cost what it 

 will. He sees it is not the dull, dirty, blank thing which he supposes 

 it to be ; it has a heart as well as ourselves, and in the bottom of 



