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streets, they were permitted daily audience of faithful and 

 gentle orchestral rendering of the work of the highest classi- 

 cal masters. 



I have not, until very latety, rightly appreciated the results 

 of the labour of the Arundel Society in this direction. Al- 

 though, from the beginning, I have been honoured in being a 

 member of its council, iny action has been hitherto rather of 

 check than help, because I thought more of the differences 

 between our copies and the great originals, than of their un- 

 questionable superiority to anything the public could other- 

 wise obtain. 



I was practically convinced of their extreme value only this 

 last winter, by stajdng at the house of a friend in which the 

 Arundel engravings were the principal decoration ; and where 

 I learned more of Masaccio from the Arundel copy of the con- 

 test with Simon Magus, than in the Brancacci chapel itself ; 

 for the daily companionship with the engraving taught me 

 subtleties in its composition which had escaped mo in the 

 multitudinous interest of visits to the actual fresco. 



But the work of the Society has been sorely hindered 

 hitherto, because it has had at command only the skill of 

 copyists trained in foreign schools of colour, and accustomed 

 to meet no more accurate requisitions than those of the fashion- 

 able traveller. I have always hoped for, and trust at last to 

 obtain, co-operation with our too mildly laborious copyists, of 

 English artists possessing more brilliant colour faculty ; and 

 the permission of our subscribers to secure for them the great 

 ruins of the noble past, undesecrated by the trim, but treacher- 

 ous, plastering of modern emendation. 



Finally, I hope to direct some of the antiquarian energy 

 often to be found remaining, even when love of the picturesque 

 has passed aWay, to encourage the accurate delineation and 

 engraving of historical monuments, as a direct function of our 

 schools of art. All that I have generally to suggest on this 

 matter has been already stated with sufficient clearness in the 

 first of my inaugural lectures at Oxford : and my forthcoming 

 ' Elements of Drawing,' will contain all the directions I can 

 give in writing as to methods of work for such purpose. The 



