Illustration is an important, vital, living branch of the fine arts, and it will flourish for ever.
BY COTMAN. FROM AN ETCHING IN “ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES OF NORMANDY.”
FOOTNOTES
[1] The Spanish photographer to whom was given the commission by Messrs. Bell to photograph the Goya drawings in the Museum of the Prado, never carried it out. For nearly a year they have been promised manyana, but the to-morrow has not yet dawned.
[2] The "Pall Mall Magazine" has just commenced to index artists and engravers completely.
[3] This is a combination of illumination and printing, the illustrations being original drawings by Dürer. The text is printed; but two or three copies exist.
[4] See "Literary Remains of Albert Dürer," and F. Didot's "Gravure sur Bois."
[5] Some of Ratdolt's are among the exceptions.