A LECTURE OX THE IDEXTIFICiTIOX OF THE ARTISAX AXD ARTIST. 



By Cardinal Wisem.vx. 



[In the spring of 1852 an association was formed by the Catholics of Manchester and 

 Salford, in England, to raise funds for the education of the poor. The committee, in 

 aid of this purpose, invited Cardinal Wiseman to deliver an address npou some literary 

 subject of general popular interest. The invitation was accepted, and the following 

 admirable address, for a copy of which wo are indebted to a friend, was delivered in the 

 Corn Exchange, Manchester. We have thought that a more general diffusion of it 

 would be acceptable to those who are interested in the establishment of schools of art 

 in this country, and accordingly have given it a place in this report. — J. H.] 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I ought certainly to commence my address 

 to you by thanking you for the extremely kind manner in which you 

 have been pleased to receive me; but I feel that I must not waste your 

 time in mere expressions of a personal character, feeling rather that I 

 shall have to tax your time and your attention to a considerable extent. 

 I will, therefore, enter at once upon the proposed subject of my address, 

 which has already been communicated to j'ou by my old and excellent 

 friend, the Bishop of Salford. And I am sure I need not say, for he 

 already has well expressed it to you, that it is a topic which at the mo- 

 ment has engaged its full share of public attention, as drawing to itself 

 the interest of all the educated classes, and it is in fact a topic connected 

 with important questions, the solution of which may have to exert an 

 important influence not only on our social but likewise on our moral 

 progress. 



The topic on Vvdiicli I have to address you, then, is the connection 



OR RELATION BETWEEN THE ARTS OF PRODUCTION AND THE ARTS OF 

 DESIGN. 



By the arts of production, I mean naturally those arts by which what 

 is a raw material assumes a form, a shape, a new existence, adapted for 

 some necessity or some use in the many wants of 'life. Such is pottery; 

 such is carving in its various branches, whether applied to wood or to 

 stone; such is the working of metals, wh(;ther of gold or silver or brass 

 or iron; such is the production of textile matters, of objects of whatever 

 sort and for whatever purpose; such is construction in its different 

 branches, commencing with the smallest piece of furniture, and ascend- 

 ing to a great and majestic edifice. By the arts of design, I understand 

 those which represent nature to us in any form, or which bring before 

 us beauty, whether in form or in color. 



l^ow, these arts ought, as every one agrees, to be in close harmony 

 one with the other; but that harmony which I wish to establish between 

 them must be an honorable union, an equal compact, a noble league. 



