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publication of these has been hindered, for at least a year, by 

 the abuses introduced by the modern cheap modes of printing 

 engravings. I find the men won't use any ink but what 

 pleases them, nor print but with what pressure pleases them ; 

 and if I can get the foreman to attend to the business, and 

 choose the ink right, the men change it the moment he leaves 

 the room, and threaten to throw up the job when they are 

 detected. All this, I have long known well, is a matter of 

 course, in the outcome of modern principles of trade ; but it 

 has rendered it hitherto impossible for me to produce illus- 

 trations, which have been ready, as far as my work or that of 

 my own assistants is concerned, for a year and a half. Any 

 one interested in hearing of our progress or arrest, may 

 write to my Turner copyist, Mr. Ward : * and, in the mean- 

 time, they can help my designs for art education best by 

 making these Turner copies more generally known ; and by 

 determining, when they travel, to spend what sums they have 

 at their disposal, not in fady photography, but in the en- 

 couragement of any good water-colour and pencil draughtsmen 

 whom they find employed in the galleries of Europe. 



AKTICLE H. 



DETACHED NOTES. 



On the series of Sibyl engravings attributed to Botticelli. 



SINCE I wrote the earlier lectures in this volume, I have been 

 made more doubtful on several points which were embarrass- 

 ing enough before, by seeing some better, (so-called, ) impres- 



* 2, Church Terrace, Richmond, Surrey. NOTE. I have hitherto 

 permitted Mr. Ward to copy any Turner drawing he was asked to do ; 

 but, finding there is a run upon the vignettes of Loch Lomond and 

 Derwent, I have forbidden him to do more of them for the present, lest 

 his work should get the least mechanical. The admirable drawings of 

 Venice, by my good assistant Mr. Bunney, resident there, will become 

 of more value to their purchasers every year, as the buildings from 



