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MUSEUMS and SCI [T0M1»AN\'TIIK Cmisr SI :PKRINTKM>KNT\S RKPOKl irC'ATIONAL Ml SKIIM FOR IITKH CANADA. r. MUSEUMS AND SCHOOLS OF ART AT SOUTH- KENSINGTON. LONDON OFFICES A. OFFICES B. FEMALE SCHOOL C. LIBRARY D. STORES E. HOUSEKEEPER F. CLASS ROOMS FOR TRAINING -SCHOOL BHOOL UIH KENSINGTON \\ * \ EDUCAriONAL MUSEUM OF BOOKS, MAPS, blACRAMS , MODELS MODELS A INVI'NIIONS UNDER COMMISSIONERS'PATENTS I'HIXTlNCil ^ ~^ . \ s ' V •- 1 N ^\ ' "' "'-^V>,\J ^ \ \ \ \\ M » 1 1 / 1 — 1 1 ~~~ 1 1, - ^ _^ 1 — — . ,-i-- ■'*! A .. iul'.ti'' Ill: VnU'A SITKRINTKT^^DKNT'S RIIPOKI .11 SKI M K«K IPPKR CANADA. .AND SCHOOLS OF ART AT SOUTH- KENSINGTON. LONDON. OFFICES A. OFFICES B. FEMALE SCHOOL C. LIBRARY D. STORES E HOUSEKEEPER F. CLASS ROOMS FOR TRAINING- SCHOOL S 3 o , u. < K w s \ s N N N \ S N O EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM OF BOOKS, MAPS, (JIACRAMS , MODELS MODELSA INVINIiONS UNDER COMMISSIONtRS'PATENTS ggf^_,_~ !HCffTlNCtl ssn i __ ! I mmTl l.ith 1. '.' . -l.-dn THE EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM AND SCHOOL OF ART AND DESIGN FOE UPPER CANADA, TTITH A PLAN OF THE ENGLISH EDUCATIONAL MUSEUM, iSco. ±c. FROM THE CHIEF SUPERINTENDENT'S B .^^'V— •;:• REPORT FOR 1858^ TO WHICH 18 ADDED AN APPENDIX, S • TORONTO : PRINTED FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION FOR UPPER CANADA, ^ BY liOVELLIi fc GIBSON. 1868. •l..,«,i ■..!.; '.t.' niEFATORY NOTE. With a view to afford every information on the subject of tlie establishment of an Edu- cational Museum in Upper Canada, (as in j)art contemplated by the Act IGth Vic., ch. 185, sec. 23,) the following jjages are re-printed, with additions from the Report of the Chief Superintendent of Education for 1850. An historical and descriptive catalogue of the objects of art in the Muscimi has not yet been prepared ; nor has a selection of architectural casts, illustrative of the different orders of ancient architecture and the early Norman and later styles of Gothic architecture, been yet arranged, for want of ' ...ce, until the completion of the new Normal and Model Grammar School building. In the course of the ensuing spring, it is hoped that the original plan of establishing a School of Art and Design will be carried into effect, when the collections made will be available for purposes of instruction, as well as open to the public, and when, it is hoped, practical effect will be given to tlic objects and wishes of the Board of Trades and Manufactures in regard to a Central School of Art and Design for the promotion of art education in Upper Canada. The papers in the Appendix, taken from recent official documents, exhibit in a satis- factory manner the progress of Art Education in England, and the establishment of local schools of science and art throughout the United Kingdom. They also contain an account (illustrated by a plan, specially re-engraved to accompany this pamphlet) of the establish- ment at South Kensington of an Educational INIuseum similar to that which hai^ oeeu recently attempted on a smaller scale in Upper Canada. It will be seen, from speeches and items of intelligence, published from time to time in the Journal of Education, how vigorous have been the efforts put forth of late years in various places to promote art education, and to cidtivate a taste for the fine arts by means of popular exhibitions and museums. England and France have been foremost in this great work of social amelioration and enlightenment. In various parts of Europe, and in the United States, the same desire to combine amusement with instruction and a cultivation of popular taste is also manifest. Canada, therefore, is but following the example of other countries in this respect in providing herself with the means of refining tlie taste and promoting the general intclligeuce of her p -ople. \ \ ^* I I i ' I CONTENTS. ' PAOB Plan of the English Educational Museum at South Kensioglon {facing title.) Prefatory Note iii The Educational Museum for Upper Canada 9 Rules for the Admission of Visitors to the Upper Canada Educational Museum 16 Plans of the Building in which the MUscum is placed : 1. Front Exterior 17 2. Plan of the first floor (offices, Ac.) 18 8. Plan of the Museum floor 19 Contents of the Museum ; I. Principal Specimens of Sculpture 20 1. Ancient 20 2. Modem.... 24 3. Architectural, (2 series) 28 II. Principal Specimens of Paintings 32 1. Italian Schools 32 2. Flemish Schools 35 8. Dutch School 87 4. Miscellaneous Flemish and Dutch Schools 88 6. German School 89 6. FrenohSchool 40 7. Spanish School 40 III. Principal Engravings 41 1. On Steel and Copper, (3 series) 41 2. Lithographs 4C (1) After Italian Masters 43 (2) After German, Dutch and Flemish 44 (3) After Spanish Masters 47 (4) After French Masters 47 (5) After English Masters 47 IV. Works Illustrating the History of Art, &c 4S 1. In French and Italian 43 2. In English 48 V. Other objects of interest : 1. Illustrations of Mediteval History, Figures in Armour, Weapons, &.c . . 49 2, Maps and Plans in Relief 50 5. Specimens of Natural History 60 4. Geological Specimens 50 6. Models of Agricultural Implements 60 6. Philosophiciil Models and School Apparatus 60 APPENDIX. h- Extracts from the Report of Dr. Lyon Playfaiu, 0. B , on the Eaglish Educational Museum and Proviucial Schools of Science and Art 61 I. Training Schools, Museum and Library of Ornamental Art 61 1. Training Metropolitan Schools of Art 51 2. Female Schools of Ar+, 62 3. Museum of Ornamental Art 62 4. Circulating Museum 63 Tl CONTENTS. FAOI 6. Central nnd Circulating Library. 63 6. Museum of Irish Indui^try 64 '7. Royal Dublin Society 64 8. Committee of Lectures 64 9. Scottish Industrial and Natural History Museum 54 II, Aid to Scliools under tlio InHpeotion of the Department, (Secondary Instruction) 54 1. Local Schools of Art 64 2. Local Hchools of Science 56 in. Aid to Schools not connected with tlic Department, (Primary Instruction) 67 IV. Aid to Schools by the formation and diffusion of Examples as a means of Study 68 V. Public Services connected with the Department , 69 VI. Educational Mu.se\im at Kensington 60 ' YII. Summary 61 B, Ou the Functions of the Department of Science and Art in England, by Henry Cole, Esq., C.B. . . . 62 C. E.\tract from the Report of the Chief Superintendent of Education for Upper Canada ou Teaching Drnwiug in Schools, d of three > mo, these !, and their hails, quite d certainly I the Royal Palaces, National Museums, and private mansions, all of which are opened to the public with great liberality. And even there, where the facilities of travelling are so great, the public museums are so numerous, and the different countries are so near to each other, many travellers, not content with having seen and contemplated the original objects of art themselves, purchase copies of the most famous paintings and casts, or sculptured or bronze copies, of the most cele- brated statuts, busts, &c., for the gratification of their own tastes, and the ornament of their mansions. But in Canada, where there are no such Art Treasures, where we arc so remote from them, where there is no private wealth available to procure them to any extent, a collection (however limited) of copies of those paintings and statuary, which are most attractive and instructive in European Museums, and with which the trained teachers of our public schools may become familiar, and which will be accessible to the public, cannot fail to be a means of social improvement, as well as a source of enjoyment, to numbers in all parts of Upper Canada. The copies of paintings which I have procured present specimens of the works of the most celebrated masters of the various Italian Schools, as also of the Flemish, Dutch and German. The collection of engravings is much more extensive ; but they are not yet framed or proposed for exhibition. The collection of sculpture includes casts of some of the most celebrated statues ancient and modern, and busts of the most illustrious of the ancient Greeks and Romans, also of Sovereigns, Statesmen, Philosophers, Scholars, Philanthropists, and Heroes of Great Britain and France. Likewise a collection of Architectural Casts, illustrating the differ- ent stylos of architecture, and some of the characteristic ornaments of ancient Gothic and modern Architecture. But these are not yet exhibited, as there is no room for them until the new Model Grammar School building is completed. And until then, the rest of the collection cannot be proporly arranged nor seen to advantage. A list of the principal instruments, models, and objects collected, is herewith appended, together with a copy of the last report of Dr. Lyon Playfair, C.B., on the English Educational Museum, and on the various Provincial Schools of Art and Design in England, Ireland, and Scotland, with other information. tal may be at a very provincial ossesses in abound in '^■ 16 Educational Museum F.DUCATION'AL MUSEUM FOR UPPKH CANADA. ^ V% %. VX^'^'^ v^ Biac* AND Days foa Aomibsion to the EnvrATioNAi. Muhkum, Noiimal Sciiooi. lliJiLDiNCis, Toronto. I. The Museum to lie open for Exhiliition on tho nffernoons of Monday, Wedncctlay, and Friday, in each week, from lialf-past 1 until 5 P. M. II. All perBons to he ailmiltcd gratis, upon entering their names on the Visi- tors' Book at the Education Otlice. III. Sticks and Umbrellas to be left in the Visitors' room. IV. Visitors ctm have access to the Theatre, in which are arrnnged the Eng- lish and Foreign f)usts, jinmediately on tiieir arrival, hut to tlie other rooms they will be accompanied, it" alone, or in parties, by a person connected with the Department. This Educational Museum \a founded after the example of what h being done by the Imperiid Government as part of the system of popular education — regarding the indirect, tis scarcely secondary to the direct means of training the tninds and forniinii the taste and character (.f the people. It consists of a collection of school apparatus for Common and Gr.immar Schools, of Models of Agricultural and other injplements, of specimens of the Natural Ilistor)' of the Country, Casts of Antique and Modern Statues and Busts, tkc, selected from the principal ^Museums of Europe, including busts of some of the most celebrated characters in English History ; also copies of some of the works of tlie great Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, and especially of the Italian Schools of Painting. These ol)ject3 of art are labelled, for the information of those who are not familiar with the originals, but a descriptive historical catalogue of them is in cours;? of preparation. In the evidence given before the Select Committee of the British House of Com- mons, it is justly stated, " that the object of a National Gallery is to improve the public taste, and to afford a more refined description of ei\joyment to tho mass of he people ;" and the opinion is at tho same time strongly expressed, that as " people of tasto going to Italy constantly brin^ home beautiful modern copies of beautiful <.riginals," it is desirable, even in England, that tho-Je who have not the opportunity or means of travelling abroad, should be on ibled to see, in the form of an accurate copy, some of the celebrated works of Ralfaelle and other great Mas- ters ; an object no less desirable in Canada than in England. What has bten thus far dc)ne in this branch of public instruction, is in part the result of a small annual sum which, by the liberality of the Legislature, has been placed at the disposal of the Chief Superintendent of Education, out of the Upper Canada share of School Grants, for the purpose of improving school architecture and appliances, and to promote arts, science and literature by means of models, objects and publications, collected in a museum in conneGtion with this Department. for Upper Canada. 17 U«M.W. Sciiooi. « of IVfonday, 3 on the Visi- igeti tfic Eng- r rooms they iod with the h boing done II— re},'c'»r(Iing 10 minds and ion of school cultural and ti-y, Casts of ' § s o 5S 3 Educational Mmeum PLAN OF THE FIRST FLOOR OF THE EDl'CATION.Vt DEPARTMENT. I mt mf"^ . ifc i. j liator . . . Dying Gladiator Boy Extracting Thorn AVrestlers (group) .... Child and (Joose Playing at Osaelets. . . Columns and Obelisks : Column of Trajan (small fac-simile). " Antoniuo " " Phocas " Flaminian Obelisk, " Lateran " " Imperial Gallery, Florence. Louvre, Paris. Capitol, Rome. II It Imperial Gallery, Florence. Louvre, Paris. Royal Museum, Berlin. At Rome, 24 Educational Museum I. List of tlio Principal Specimens of Sculpture in the Educational Museum. 2. MODERN SCULPTURE. SUBJECT. SCULPTOR. FROM WHAT GALLERY. Large Gnours: The Graces Canova. Thorwaldsen. Gibson. Canova. Sir R. Westmncott. Gibson. Power. Princess Marie. Canova. It Cupid, with bow Guardian Angel pKjche, borne by Zephyrs .... Laiioe Statues: Hebe Pandora Venus Greek Slave , Jeanne D' Arc Busts : Hebe jr Helen Private Collection, England. Florence. Julian de Medicis. . . .» Milo of Crotoun Michael Angelo Le Puget. Canova ... ... Paris Royal Gallery, Munich. Vatican, Rome. England. Perseus *( Terpsichore (i , Eve Bailey. Europe. A.=iia. Africa, Auierica. French Statesmen, &c.. Chnries IX. of Frnnce Louvre, Paris. II 11 Henri II. " Jouu Goiijon Henri III. " Geruiiiiu l*ilon ii 11 Henri IV. Napoleon I ClmnM Covzevon Collection at Paris. Louvre, Pari,?. Institut de France. Richelieu, Cardinal Sully, Due de Ximenes, Ciirdinal Wife of Francois, I Museum St. Denis, France. Versailles Museum. ^Various. / Wife of De Thou Italian Artists. Michael Angelo. Palladio. Raffiielle. English Crowned Heads, tt'c. The Quoen. Prince Albert. ■ William IV. George IV. Duke of York. George III. Olivei' Cromwell. Charles I. Queen Elizabeth. Mary, (iueen of Scots. Statesme7i. • Lord Broiighani. Lord Cnniden. George Canning. Eiirl of {Jlirttli.'im. Richard (Jobden. Earl of Eldon. Charles James Fox. Earl Grey. • Bust le Educational lAT GALLERY. ion, England. Munich. ris. oe. is, France, im. for "Upper Canada, I. List of the Principal Specimens of Sculpture in the Educational Museum. 2. MODERN SCULPTURE— ((7on Lewis « Barre. JSchwantl (( u t< u (( « IC (( (t «i <( u « (( (4 .( (( tl (C « It u u peuimen. 41 Moulding Boss, from St. Stephen's, Westminster. ■ • 60 Another. lIlSOELLANEOUS. 26 Dancing Girl, with Wreath. Vases of different periods. SECOND SERIES. Breseic KoauAH. 1 Capital, from Ely Cathedral. 2 Capital, from Barfreston Church, Kent 8 Arch Moulding, from Rochester CathedraL 4 Another from the same. 6 Another from the same. 6 Spandril, from St. Mary's Abbey, Tork. 7 Capital. 8 Shaft 9 Arch Moulding. 10 Capital. 11 Arch Moulding. ao Educational Museum I. List of the Princii)al Specimens of Sculpture in the Educational ^ Museum. jj^ f 3. ARCHITECTURAL SCVLPIVlXE-iContinued.) NoBUAN — ( Continued. ) 12 Spanilril, from St. Mnry'g Abboy, York. 18 Anotlicr from tho snmo. 14 From nn Abacus. 15 Drij.gldiiu Termination. 16 Orimmcnt from a Curuico. Fably Enolihii, 17 Henil, from Lincoln CnthcdraU 18 Capital, do lit Arch Ornaraont, do 20 Another, do 21 Cuap, do 2P Another, do 23 Capital, from LlnndufT Cathedral. 24 Cusp, from Wells Cathedral. 26 Tooth Ornament, from Dimstublc Chur«L. 20 Diaper, from Westminster Abbey. 27 Another, do 28 Another, ^ 29 Base Ornament. 30 Moulding. 81 Boss, from the Temple Church, Londoi^ 32 Moulding. 6S Base. 84 Moulding. 36 End of a SpandriL 3« Capital. 87 Buss. 88 Moulding. SU Capital. 40 Cusp, from Lincoln. 41 Another from same. 42 Corbel. 43 Spandril. Decouatkd. 44 Spnndril, from Southwell Minster. 45 Another, ^9 46 Ornament, * fto 47 Capital, do 48 Crockets, from Winchester Cathedral. 49 Enriched Moulding', from the same. 50 Diaper, from Lincoln Cathedral. 51 Capital, from tho same. 52 Sjiandril, fi'om VJy Cathedral. 53 Another from the same. 54 Capitiil. from Ely Tlace, llolboru. 55 Moulding fi-om tho same. 56 Spandiil. I =Ka fw Upper Canada. 81 the Educational B ^' ^^^'^ ^^ ^^^^ Principal Spocimons of Sculpture in the Educational Museum. :j. AnClIITKCTUUAL SCULPTURE— (Con^Vi(/r do do do do do 151tf vf -1624 ^ ■1198 *^ ■1633 ^ ■1676 <0( V^ ■1621 ^ ■1520 ^J' SUBJECT. Rcliqnflry (Madonna della Slfllu) Portrait of Liraself. . Modesty and Vanity. Medusa's Head Virgin and JoIib Baptist ador- ing tlie Saviuur Holy Family Virgin and Child Ho _, Family St. Catherine of Alexandria. Portrait of Savonarola Mary going to the Sepulchre Portrait of Himself MASTER COPIED. Fra. Angelico Leonardo da Viuci. do do FROM WHAT GALLERY, La Bella , Our Saviour [in profile]. . . , The Supper at Emmaua. . . , Madonna del Cardellino . . . . The Transfiguration Madonna della Seggioia . . . , Holy Family St. Cecilia Vision of Ezekiel VSSt. John in the Desert. do Si us: IS 1488- 5 1493- ^ ^ a- '520* 1830 ^ 1634 \^ La Fornarina. Madonna and Child (on por- celaiu) Iluly Family (small). Portrait of Himself. . The Salutation Holy Family Perugino(Ma8ter of Raffaelie) D. Ghirlandnjo (Master of Michael Angelo.) Francesco Fraucia do Fra. Bartolomeo. do do Titian do ■du, do Palma (the Elder). Raffaelie do do do do do do do do do do Albert! uelli Andrea del Sarto. Madonna adoring the Child... IP^rrcggio Sacristy of Santa Maria N^ veil a Fliircnce. Uffizzi Puliice, Florence. Sciarra Palace, Rome. Ufilzzi Palace, FIor«nce. Pitti Palace, Florence. Uflizzi Palace, Florence. Bologna. Academy at Siena. Academy Fine Arts, Florence Academy at Siena. Ufiiz^^.i Palace, FloreDce. do Pitti Palace, Fbrence. do TiibiniG of the Ufiizzi Palace, Florence. Vatican, Rome. Pitti Palace, Fbreace. Naples. Academy at Bologna. Pitti Pidace, Fltrenoe. Tribune of the UflSzzi, Flo- rence, do I Piuacotliek "t Miniefa. UfBzzi Palace, Forencft. Pi Hi Puliico, Floence. Tribune of the Ufizsi Falaeo^ FluruuQe. \v\ I') 3': ail !>S il \i'h 1 \U(> 1 'T? 1 1' '^03 1 1 71 '1 no 2S V Vs V/8 \S2 for Upper Canada. 33 al Museum. WHAT GALLERY. of Santa Maria No. a Flomnce. 'iilace, Florence. Palace, Rome. alace, Floronce. ICO, Florence, (lace, Florenc*. at Siena. Fine Arts, Florene* lit Siena. ace, Florence. / e, Fbrence. the Uffizzi Palace, ce. >ine I, Fbrence. I ' Bologna. I Flcrenoe. the Uffizzi, Ho- t Minioh. >. Forencflu PloKnee. ! Ufizzi Palace, !•» II. List of tlie Principal Paintings in the Educational Museum. I. ITALIAN SCHOOLS— (Cowfmwei.) DATE. ^7 1 ■ 2 ?>« in I / 6y / /03 '1 71 n 28 '>! Sc I n5 3o 1493-1534 "^ 1600-1550 IX 1607 ^ 1609-1566 V^ 1510-1 P.50 Vl 1510-1592 ^ 1628-1588 ^ do ♦>( 1535-1607 «X 1560-1609 ^ 1555-1619 *• do v' 1663-1609 >/ 1669-1609 V< 1676-1642 *r do do do do do do do do C'Lf- 1676-1625 «!^ 1677-1621 ^ do ^ 1678-1666 4- 1690-1666 sf. SUBJECT. Magdalen. Head of St. John presented to Hcrodias Portrait of Cicsar Borgia. . . Descent from the Cross Holy Family The Bassnno Family Feast of Belshazz r Christ and the Centurion. . . . Abraham's Sacrifice Venus and Cupids Conversion of St. Paul Dead Christ, with Virgin, >> Archangel Michael. ^ Lucretia V Beatrice Cenci. **■ ^ Massacre of the Innocents. , ^ Aurora (in fresco). V^ Hope . ^ Mother and Child asleep. Virgin and Infant Jesus . . . La Musique. Saviour Asleep on the Cross. Judith with the Head of Holoferues The Baptism of Christ. Sybilla Samia I'' I MASTER COPIED. Correggio. Luini. Daniele da Volterra. Guilio Romano. Bassano Paul Veronese. do Aleasandro Allori. . . Anuibale Caracci... Ludovico Caracci . . . do F. Vanni. Caravaggio Guido Reni do do do do do do , do do copied by Maria Canutti. Martinclli Christofano Allori FROM WHAT GALLERY. UfBzzi Palace, Florence. Chui'ch of Trinita di Monti, Home. Uffizzi Palace, Florence. Uffizzi Palace, Florence. Royal Gallery, Munich. Bolo;riia. do .... F. Albani . Guercino . -'.^ .,v f^M. Rome. Academy at Bologna. Church of the Capuchins, R line. Cori^iiii Palace, Florence. Barberini Palace, Rome. Aeadi'my at Bologna. Riispiglicsi Palaca, Rome. Rome. Corsiui Palace, Florence. Florence. Pitti Palace, Florence, i Bologna. Royal Gallery, Florence. 34 Educational Museum II. List of the Principal Paintings in the Educational Miisonm. 1. ITALIAN SCnOOLS-iContinned.) DATE. J'/ 1681-1641 *■ 7 do 1}( ^ 1600 ^ VO do c^ SUBJECT. Lust Coiiiniuuion of St. Je- rome Sjbilla Cunisea St. George nnil the Dragon. . Peter's DeulrJ MASTER COI'IED. /(6. 1696-1669 *< The Cucumeisioii ^ 1605-1685 D 1616-16SC«>'' / 6 do do do do do do Mother of Sorrows. Milter Amabilis . . . Virgin nud Child (after Raf- fiiullc) Aeaileiny and Philosophers. . Laiuiseape (the Bridge, Ac,).., Conspir^icy of Caiiline Infant Baptist (iisleep) Reii' ise of Peter Virgin and Infant Jesus The Agony in the Garden . . llie JIagdulen La Poesie ^J- 1697- ImZ do vCiAngel of the Annunciation. 1768 l?SQni ind CannI, Venice « Pulaeo of the Doge (Venice) Donicnichiiio .... do Castelfianeo. Gherardo. Pietro daCorl;)!ia Sassoferrato . do do Sii'vator Rosa . .. dj do Carlo Dolci. do 1707-1762 7J V^ Portraits of Artists., . . Weeping Oiil do Api'llo uud the Mnses. Ecce Iliinio do do do do do Canaletti do ... . Various Rolari, The fullowhig by I'mvg Artixls. (Oiiglual.) Carn'val at Rome 'll, CafTi ^ "^ o y U.iuiau Forum do FROM WHAT GALLERY. Vatican, Rome, Borghcse Gallery, Rome. Uffizzi Palace, Florence. Pitti Palace, Florence, do do Pitti Palace, Florence. do do Uilizzi Palace, F Jrence. Corsini Palace, Florence. Ferroui Palace, Floience. i , . . . . Pitti Palace, Florence. ! do Uffizzi Palace, Florence. Riinio. do If no 3 m ; /57 tmmmmm yiW for Tipper Canada, 35 'inl ^tiisoum. \V1IAT GALLERY. Hi) me, L' GalKry, Rome. I'lco, Florence. TE. SUBJECT. MASTER. GALLERY. Beatrice Cenci the night be- fore her E.\ecution Daute and Beatrice Portrait of Count Ugolino. . A. Ratti do Rome, do 3i+- oX' Florence. // ^^ Blind Savoya''d V ■ 2. FLEMISH SCHOOL. 1370-1441 ''^^1450-1629 k^ do do lai 1480 7.^- 1490 1610-1546 ^3o 1 520-1 «04 Vf /^7 do s/ Dead Chrif^t with Virgin.. , Head of Our Lord Descent from the Cross (in i'auel.) Descent from the Cross (three figures.) Dead Christ and Ids Mother Resurrection of our Lord . . . .. an Van Eyck. Quentin Messys , do do John Messys. Claessens. LanilRcnpe, (fiL'ures, moun- tains and water,) Griir.iner. Adoration of the Shepherds . The Last Supper I'iL) 1520-1670 V^JRaising of Lnz.arus /3? 1546-1616 t}^ Judgment of Sdlonum /SO do \J' Marriage of C-ma Birth of Christ Cattle Elijah under Juniper Tree. .. Elijah Fed by Ravens Adoration of the Magi Interim (Boors drinking)... Last Supper , >■'%. do Fhe Straw Hut (copied by Farasui) Portrait of Hi nmelf. Martin de Vos. do Franz Floris. Frauek. do do Van Oort. Style of Van Balen and Breughel de Velours, John Breughel, do Francis Pourbug Rubens, do Priv ^e Collection, Brabant, Louvre. 36 Educational Museum II. List of the Principal Paintings in the Educational Museum. ^m I 2. FLEMISH SCllOOh— {Continued.) ■ DATE. SU15.JECT. MASTER. GALLERY. ^H ■^^'^^ 1677-1642 =^ Holy Family Rubens ^1 " /?/ do ^^ Presentation in the Temple. do ^^^B2- JSl do N Clirist in tlie House of Simon tbe I'Lurisee do. copied by J. Van Herpt. Rubens 1 ^ /so do ^ Descent from tbe Cross Antwerp Cathedral ^^B 'Of do ^ Incredulity of Thomas do •^ do v*" '^a 1679 > /2^ 1689-1657 ^ Our Saviour (youthful) Boar Hunt Battle Piece do Snyders. C. Scghers. Sustermans. Pitti Palace, Florence ^^B ai4- 1697 0( Portrait of Galiileo 1699-1641 Cimon and Pera (copied by Bcssoby) Vandyck. do ' 1'" y O-do ^ Esther and Ahasuerus (copied by Peter Tbys) do Our Lord Crucified do fll ^o do V^ Portrait of Himself do ^^m. f • 1610-1690 J^ Interior (Dutch Boors danc'g) Teniers the younger. 2:i^ do «V Jesus at tbe House of Mary and Martha do ^y>l /2^ 1616-1677 V Adoration of the Wise Men. D. Ryckaert 2«il 1621-1673 Landscape, ngures & animals Gospard de Wit. "^S> 1644-1719 Landicape, (Rabbits, 3^."-*3fl .^^Q^WP^f^™^'"^ for Vpper Canada, 87 al Museum. II. List of the Principal Paintings in the Educational Museum. CJALLERY. Cathedral cc, Florence 8. DUTCH SCHOOL. DATE. >3- 1490-1660 1498-1678 1610-1570 1610-1570 llOii- do o> ir8 do '^ pS'' 1610-1683 i^ h» 1656-1634 V^ Vy 1596 v^ :'7<'1606-16G5 *< •-^>> 1606-1663 1606-1672 1606-1672 1606-1672 1606-1672 ^'^^ 1609-1668 '^ (ji^ 1610-1685 ^^ 2*'l 1611-16S1 Il4-Cf Ao <^ "i^SS 1613-1674 Vt 1616-1697 do 1617-1654 1623-1708 1626-1664 '"^ 1632-1693 ♦'* 1636-1689 ^'S 1636-1695 ♦* :fS3 1639-1792 SUBJECT. The last Judgment Christ and Saints Street View Interior (Festival of 8 Kings) Flemish Fete Tiling; Dance Family Concert Rape of the Sabines St. Jolm Preaching ia the Wilderness Portrait of a Gentleman VVI Portrait of his Mother. Landscape (with animals and figures) Cavaliers and Horses. Cattle Drinking Landscape (with figures and horses). VI Joseph Sold by his Brethren. Tuning Guitac 'ortrait of Admiral Van Tromp. Appointment of Elders in Wilderness. Evening School Landscape Landscape Winter Scene Landscape (with figures and animals). Cattle. Child and Dog Interior (Dutch Boors) Interior of Stable (Horses and Cavaliers). A' Landscape (diiving catttle). i<7i 1640 ^ Fruit Market. w|t'( MASTER. Bernard Van Orley. Hemskirch. P. Breughel. do do do Peter Pourbus. Otto Venius (Master of Rembrandt. Leonard Bramer. Rembrandt. do A. Cuyp. do Antonissen, after Cuyp. t do do Philip de Coninck. Ostade. Ferdinand Bol. do. Gerard. De Jonghe. do J. Ostade. Mommers. Antonissen. Nicolas Mnes. Jan Stecn. J. Le Due. Vande Velde. Steenwick. 38 Educational Museum ;■ I' I 1 II. List of tlie Principal Paintings in the Educational Muscirni. 3. DUTCH SCHOOL— (Con"*« 1766-1815 Murine A^icw (Rustic Bridge ) Marine View • • do 1776-1839 Ciittle Van Os. 4. MISCELLANEOUS DUTCH AND FLEMISH PAINTINGS, ■Hi Interior of Mechlin Cathedral A storm at Sea Studio of P. Douw Fruit Market at Night (Contrast of lights). ^^^ V< Sculptor's Studio. Music Party Holy Women at the Sepulchre. rj'X- v' St. Paul (small original) . Holy Trinity Monkey and Grapes Interior (Mother and Children) . Interior {Salon~-Z figures) . IC^o ih Dead Game CRabbit, Ac). Fruit and Oysters Huntsman and Horses. Portrait. Landscape. Game Horses and Cattle Fair (original) ^i^ 4 Van Tchel. Vcrboeckhoven. Leys. Tliaus. Vandenkorch Verhoeve, J. De Ryn (?) Verellier. Ruttenharamer. Snoyers. Krunz. 0. De Vylder. Clevcnburg. Deheem. Moerenhout. Miervelt. F. Debaan. Oberman. Simon Van Dow for Upper Canada, 39 II. List of tlio Principal Paintini^s in the Educational ]Musciim. 4. M ISC r.LLAN ROUS DUTCH AND FLEMISH PAINTINGS— (CoH I'uiiliis rdiitius lii'Jii II. Witdouo 16U0 Peter Cloiict KKifl-liiCS . A. Van Dicponbokc 1 'i(»7 Polcrde Jodo 16(16-1059. Jacob NoufTs HUO-lOlo. C. Vis8(;Ii(>r A.D. 1610-1670. Peter ill' liailliu 1614-1045. Xicdlas l.a\vor,J 1620 Nioiilar! Ryckoinaiis 1620 Slaririiis 1(130 A. ^oiiiiuelin 1630 F. Villi \Vyni,'aerde 1040 L.VaiiOiloy 1052-1732. A set of 85 Sketches drawn and engraved by Uenibrandt, ("original.) A.D. 1606- 1G65. A set of 67 Sketches, &c., drawn and engraved by Callot, (original.) A.D. 1593- 1635. A set of 58 Views drawn and engraved in aqnaforlis, by Hermann Van Swanevelt, (original.) A.D, 1G20-1654. A set of 52 Plates comprising the entire works of Adrian Van Ostade, engraved by himself, (Original.) A.D. 1610-1685. A set of 27 lartie Engravings from the Lnxcmbonrg, Gallerv of Mario do ^redicis, after Rubens, by the following engravers, and published at Paris in 1710; Loir A.D. 1030-1713. Picart 1631-1721 . G. Edolink • 1627-n!i7 . L. dc Chastillon 1639-1734. Virmeulon A.D. 1644 Audrnn 1661-1721 . (i. Diieliaiigo 1602-1747. Trouvaiii 1606-1707. A set of 24 la- ge Plates after Nicr)las Poussin, of which 15 represent various inci- dents in the life of Onr Lord, and the remaining 9 are pictures of the Last Judg- ment. Engraved by Claudia Stella, A.D. 1086-1607. A set of 12 Engravings by J.Vi.sscher, (1636-), after Views by P>crghem, (1024-1683.) A set of 45 Engravings by IMoyreau, (1712-), after Wouvermans, (1620-1668.) A set of 13 Engravings by J. r. Lobas, (170S-1782), after Tcniers, (1610-1694.) A set of 12 Engravings by Tardicu, (1720-1772), after Rubens, rc[)rcsenting scenes in Roman History. A volume of Views drawn and en'.>;ravod by F. C. Voyrotfer, (1730-1773.) A set of 8 Engravings after Raftaelle, representing the Creation and Life of Moses, by De Meulemeestcr. Two volumes of Plates of animal--: antl views, drawn and engraved by Hucl, (1735- 1813.) Set of 28 Ensrravinffs after nainll:i;j;-! 1)V the following eminent Artists of the French School : Bertin A. D. 1667-1736 . David 1750-1825. Re^nauU A.D. 1754-1831. Gamier 1759-1831. I) 42 Educational Museum III. Engravings in the Educational Museum. 1. ON STEEL AND C.OV?VJX-{ConUnued.) Drouais A.D. 17«3-n88. Giroilet I7t'.r>-1 824 . Mino. Benoit 1770 Menjauil 1772-J8;51. Gut-rill 1774-17117 . Cte. de Forbin 1779-184] . Mme. Ilmulebourt Lescot 1785-1844. Miolinllon 1796-1822. Mile. Mayer 180U-1821. Condor Rirbni'd Dftguerre Duei.t BiJniilt Mmp Iliisaon n Cbaudet J, Lniirciit LniicrenuD Cognicr (2.) Miscellaneous Engravings after Paintings by the following Italian Masters, en- graved by various Artists of the last and present centuries, among whom are Rosaspina (1760-), Morghcn (1758-1833;, Longhi (176G-1831), Anderloni 1784-), liichomme, and many of the most celebrated living engravers : — .A.D. 1446-1524. 1.8;i-1530. do do do do do do do do 1477-1676,. do 1469-1517. T)<'--ci'nt fi-nm llio Cross Pcrugino MuduuiiudcUn Seggiola Riiffiiclle Madonna del Cardelliao do MadoDua and 'Jhild do St Jobn Baptist do Vision of Ezekiel do Fornurina do Qalafoa do Madonna deir Impannata do Transfiguration , , . . do La Bulla Titian La Flora do Descent from tbe Cross Fra Bartolommco . . ... The Fates Michael Ange!o 1474-15G8. St. John in the Desert G, BrigiarJiui 1481-1656. Madonna adoring the Child , .Corroggio 1493-1534 , Tbe Magdalen do , do Descent from tiie Cross Dauitile da Volterra 1509-1666. Interment of Our Lord P. Fontana 1612-1597. The Calling of St. Matthew Lod. Carracoi 1555-1619, Holy Family J. Francucci da Imoia . . .flourished 1 640 . Transfiguration Lod. Caracci 1665-1619. do do do do do 1669-1633. 1518. The Prophecying of St. .1. Baptist do Scourging of Our Lord do Convulsion of St. Paul do Virgin and Child with Sts. Francis and .Terome, do Birth of St. John Baptist do Descent from the Crobs L. Massari Do N. da Cremona flourished Aurora Guido Reni 1 575-1642 . Cleopatra do do Lucietia do do Interment of Our Lord A. Tiarini 1577-1668. St. Catherine of Siena do do Sybil!" Curaasa Domenichino 1681-1641 St. Peter Martyr , , , . . do , , , , do fm' Upper Canada. 43 III. Engravings in the Eiluciitiona: . I. ON STEEL AND CWn:\\-{Continmd.) "um. St Frnnois F. Ocssi ]BS8-lft49. Virgin with Sts. Maplalon and Cfttherino V. AUmni 1.178-1000. Baptism HiaPortrait ^'^ Madonna di Sisto "" La Belle Jardiniere, (Madonna) do Madonna and Holy Family Guil»o Komano St. Sebastian Correggio The Holy Night, (Holy Family) do St Francis do The Gamblers Caravaggio . . . Virgmand Child Bordone .A.D. 1445-1519. 1450-1533. do 1477-1576. do do do do 1477-1511. do 1481-1669. 1483-1520, do do do do 1492-1546, 1494-1534, do do 1496-1648, 1600-1570* 44 Eihicatlonal Museum III. Enp' .vine's in tlio Educational !\[us(Hiin. 2. LITIKXiRAI'IIS— (t''>"'/«i/ft/.) Ititri'inptit iif Oiiv Snvidur Snlvii\ti. Virgin Infant Clirist nrnl St. John Lo Sciiicelli CI<'i)|)ii(ni Viuil V TIi.> Aili.r M arnam' rrcwiMiliiti 8u!>anna1i Finilinj; of Our Loril i Concinii F llii''nr and Our ^avii>i His Dauj;! Jcsii^, Mm Daviil witl FiStluT and Rebecca at Tancred in Youthful St. AL'ne.s 1 Chihl Ciin ri!*t nnd St. John Lo^ I'aul ation it Cana on in the Temple at the I'atli f Moses ut Knuuuus , nniilv 1 Ishtnnel Ban IP Bell ittr I'nll •V, Cathei Ine, itc h rioliah's Head Oibo 1 Aha«ueriis StroE ttlin Well lo 1 tlio Bowitchod Forest Tiar Chriat n n ilii d( . enmc'io. Jo ino, fiDitrix iia tlio i'ildcr do tto. izzi . /" nhrd ).ilo Innocence Sladonna and Ciiild (vief!,'o an lis) do Ilcrcdifts witli Head of Joliii Baptist do "Tiiis is my Bidy.'' do Sludoniia and Cliild, ito Maratti. , Youthful Christ Slecpiuy A. Pozzi . Canal of \'eiiicc Canaletti. Queen Tomyris Gucrcino SIngdalen Battoni . . Girl Weeping Rotari l.Md-irift.i. 1. Ml' I- 1(109. l.-.'.l-l»',2I. iriu'.'-ifiss. do lo lo do lo do do .A.I). l.VJ8-ltn2. ir.no. 1.'. 10-1588. do ir.so-1050, 1581-1C44. do I.'mV-IOSS, l(il('.-108(J. do do do do do ic.'j.i-nis, 1CI'J-1709. l('.;t"-i7C8. ir.oo-lnctJ. 1708-1 787.. 17U8-17C2. Twelve plates of Caryatides; designed by FruUi, Ccnestrelli and Bonola. (2.) German, Butch, and Flemish. St. Luke PaintinE: the Virgin Mei4,er Williclm, Jloiirhlicd Christ on Mount Olivet do Annunciation do do Van Eyck St. Luke Painting the Virgin do Annunciation Vander Goes Portrait of a Lady Lueus Cranacli Descent from the Crosa Albert Durer His Portrait do Christ on Mount of Olives Burgomnior Annunciation Meckcncuu Holy Family Mabuse Our Lord Crucified Jq Rest in Egypt Schorel St. John Baptist Ueinliiig Our Saviour Jo 1380. do. do. 1370-1441. do M0,5-1480. 1472 1471-1528. do 1472-1559. 1424 1492-1632. do 1405-1562. 1440-1499. do iSfe. for Upper Omada, 46 in. Eni;Tavin<;s in tlio lilduciiiloiml ^[iiscunn. 2. L\'nU)V,l\\VUH~{Contintied.) t.- Si. Chri:r llu> SiiliiiK'ii (1 Tliu (jiii'laiiil of Fruit do Dofeat of Hi'Diiiudiorib do Coiivci'Mtoii ol' Saul do Lion lliiiit do LiiHt Juili;iii«'iit do Portraitti III' ids Sons do Oardt'ii of Liivc il<> Boar lIuiitiiiL,' Snvdei-g do do St. Ciitbcrinc U. Ui-ujn War SoLMi(>, tviiip. Ciomwcil Cam|ilmusen . . . Holy Fuinily V'uiidyck Our Lord and the Puralvtic do A I'ortriiit do Cbiliii't'ii of Ciiai'los I do Kini; Oli.irli'H 1 do Knyollirtclit (a portrait) do Slieplicrd l.il'o in Holland J. Vamlovelde. Winter Socik! ilo Cimon and IVra Iluntliotst St. Peter's Dflivorance do The Dentist do Morninii Wynauts Evuiiiii^ do Spanish Studuuts Siugiui; Rombouts Evening Kiiyp Dutch liarborV Sliop A. Bronwer... Dutcli I'eagants Fighting do , , , The Hillet-doux Ferburg Evening J. Both Dutch Inn .Teniers do Dutch Nobloniau Rombrandt EbUicl'* Fcaxt do .... Day of the Kings do . . . , Hi« Daughter Rycknert Shipwreck Peters Tbc Hermit Geraid Dow .. 1440-1409. do \iw-\:,:A. 1577-1040. do do do do do do do do do 1579-1657. do 1570 15S((-ir.'20. 1599-1041. do do do do do 109--1C16. do 1592-1660. do do lCOO-1677. do 1597-1637 l(i06-1672. 1608-1040. do 1608-1681. 1610-1650. 1610-1694. do do do 1611-1081. do 1610-1685. .lo 1606-1665. «■ do Co 1615-1077. 1614-1071, 1013-1674. 46 Educational Museum I n j' (Vi III. Engravings in the Educational Museum. 2. UinOGllkPll^—iContinued.) Quacksalver do 1618-1674. ^Varket Beggar do do "Writing Master do do TheDcutist t do do His Portrait do do Game Dealer Met^u 1615-1669. Poiil try Dealer do do "Woman Making Lace do do Mau Selling Poultry do do The Wolf and the Fox Pauditz 1620-1666. Knife Grinder Weeuix 162 1-1660. Storm at Sea Everdiugen ] iV^l . Bear Hunt Fyt 1625-1671 . Dutch Shepherds Putter 1625-1664. Group of Cattle do do Herd Resting H. Roos 1631-1685. Hunt Riiysdael 1636-1681 . The Sick Woman Netschor 1636-1 684. Lady and Parrot , . ... do do The Cocks Hondekotter 1636-1695 . Cock and Turkey Fighting do do Woman Fainting Mi -is 1635-1681 Tinker do do His Studio do do Another view of Same do do Girl Reading p. de Hooghe, flourished 1650. Youthful Amusements Vauder Werflf 1659-1722. Dismissal of Hag ir do do Cupid Sliarpening his Arrovs Ralph Mengs 1728-1779. A Mother of Aloito lliedal 1732-1816. ""■Qung Neapolitan of Aloito do do -ndith do do Roman Girl. ... , do do Roman Girl at Albano do .' do Dutch School Schmidt 1740-1818. Christ and Samaritan , . . . .Kauffman 1742-1817. Christ in the Storm Overbtck 1789 The Brothers Vogel 1083-1737. The Fall of the Liris Friess 1801-1833. Cattle Market in High Bavaria Adam The Pillage do .'!.*.'.!!!! Young Foxes do Eugli:-]) Horses, thorough bred do Rustic Stable do I.al an nnd his Servants Berghem Grandfatlier's Return Brockelsen King Lewis Bodmer A Sliower Burkel Thunderstorm Backer New Church in Amsterdam Bosbiora for Upper Canada, 411 III. Engravings in the Educational Museum, 2. LITHOGRAPHS— (Cowdia of the Fine Arts : coni;irising Architeeture, Soidpture, Painting, Heraldry, Numis- maticu. Poetry, Music, and En^ineerin'.'. L.>nilon, 1848. The Book of Art, Caituon^, Frabcoes, Seulptura. and Decorative Art, as applied to the new Houses of Parliament and to buildings in general : with an Historical Notice of the Exhibitions in West. minster Hall, and directions for I'ainliiig in Fresco. Illustrated by Engravings on Wood London, 1846. The Art Journal. Wi .h Suj)pleDieBt, 10 vcils. Loudon, 1849 to 1857. for Upper Canada. 49 )f Art and es. Pftr Louis arle Chevalier n ia ramc ed '3 par le Pro- le la Peinture •18 1845. irtistes Beige le lioyale de aris. Dii Domeuico argc variety of ols. Partly imiiid Head, Crowe and :s, drawings, of Pictures. Two vols. 1852. a supple- 5. London, Illustrated ry, Numis- Houses of s iu West- on Wood IV. Books in Educational Museum illustrating the History of A rt and the Principal Galleries of Painting and Sculpture. 2. IN ENGLISH— (Continued) Gems of European Art. The Blsc Pictures of the Best Schools. Edited by S. C. Hall, Esq , F.S.A. Illustrated. London. 184(5. Interiors and Exteriors in Venice. By Lake Price, Lilhograpbed by Joseph Nash, from the original drawings. London, 1843. Illustrations of ti'.e Rock Cut Temples of India. By James Fergusson, Esq. London, 1845. Annals of the Artists of Spain. By William Stirling, M. A. Three vols. London, 1848. A Biogi\ipl)ic!il and Critical Dictionary of Paintei's, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, from Ancient to Jlodcrn Times. By S. Spooner, M.D. New York, 1853. The Wilkie Cillery : a selection of the best Pictures of tlie late Sir David Wilkie, Tl.A. ; including his Spanish and Oriental Sketches. With Notices, Biographical and Critical. London. Description of the Building erected iu Hyde Park for the Great E-xhib-Uon of the Wor'.js of Industry of all Nations, 1851. Illustrated by twenty-eight large Pla*:.^, embracing Plans, Elevations, Sections, ur:l Details, laid down to ii large scale, from the ■"■ jrking drawings of the Contractors, Messrs. Fox, Henderson & Co. London, 1852. The Journal of Design and Manufactures ; with Two Hundred and Thirteen Fabric Patterns, iu cloth and paper, and Six Himdred and Forty Engravings. In eis volumes. London, 1852. 2. V. Other Objects of Interest. 1, ILLUSTRATIONS OF MEDIiEVAL UISTORY, &c., VIZ.:- Complete Suit of Knight's Armour, with lay figure. Do. Black do. do. Trophy of Ancient Arms, including mace, buttle-axe, shield, «Sro. Six Bi'ouze Statuettes. A Critical Enquiry into Ancient Armour, a'3 it existed in Europe, particularly in Ureat JSritaiu, irom the Norman Conquest to the reign of King Cliailes II. Illustrated by a series of Illuminated Eugraviugs, with a Glossary of Military Terms of the middle ages. By Sir Samuei Rush Meyrick, Kt., LL.D., F.S.A , Ac. .fee. Loudon, 1842. Engraved Illustrations of Ancient Armour, from the collection at Goodrich Court,, Herefordshire ; from the drawings and with tiie descriptions of Dr. Meyrick. By Joseph Skelton, F.S.A., author of the "Antiquities of Oxfordshire." In 2 vols 4to. London, 1853. The Costume of the Ancients. Uy Thomas Hope. A new edition, much enlarged. Iij 2 vols. Three hundred and twenty-one Plates. Loudon, 1841. ILLUl^TRATIONS OF SWISS CGSTUME.-PICTURES EMBROIDERED IN SILK WITH GOLD AND SILVER LACE, &c. &c. Wilhelm Tell. Walter Furst Von Uri 1 Werner Staufaeher Von Schwitz y One Picture. Arnoldus De Melehtal Von Under Walden) The remainder are Standard Buarcrs of the various Swiss Cantons an.; Towns, viz. :— Bern. X. (ieriJ.:t Bund. Schweitz. Schaft'hausen. Freiburg. Uri. Basle. Unterwnlden. Chur. Zug. Lucerne. Olarus. Zurich. Muthausen. Appenzell. Valais. Solcure. Geneva. S. Gallen Statt. Grau-Bund. Neueuburg. S. Galleu. Abbt. BO Educational Museum i ^ i V. Other Obiects of " terest. 3. MAPS ANr> PLANS IN RELIEF. Sevastopol, with plan of military operations at the BJege. Map of Europe 8 feet by 10 : 3 PhjBicnl and Hydrographical Chart of France 4 : by 6 : Plan of Paris and its Environs 7 : by 9 : Various Maps in relief, as follows : Europe 1 : 10 by 2 : 5 Asia do Africa do North America do South America 1 Europe 2 Spain and Portugal France and Belgium 2 Italy Germany and Holland The British Isles North America Russia Ottoman Empire Switzerlaud 2 10 by 2 ! 8 2 by 1 : 9 do 2 by 2 : do tminster school has been temporarily susiicnded from local causes, but is likely soon to be re-opened. The monthly average of pupils who have attended all the district schools has been 470, being a small increase of ten above tlie average of the previous year. The most gratifying point in connexion with the training school during the past year, is the large increase in the number of children in the parochial schools, which are taken into connexion with the former in order to practise the masters in teaching. Forty-one schools of this class are now taught, this number being an increase of eight schools during the year. The number of children receiving instruction has increased from 1,730 to 3,316. It is important to remark, thtit the ordinary teachers ir* English Educational ITtiseum, 53 spcndcd from go of pupils I increase of »I during the :liial schools, i tlie masters unber being en receiving irk, that the struction in eachers, are 104 school- suin paid to This sum, lool, and to receipts of instruction "■r of pupils Ills at the je evening The fees i bit ions of competi- ent, been Museum ; 11 chiefly •splay of circum- asited in in the 0, sub- e whole deed of stances, House, ght for of the Museum, permission wns accorded. An uncommon interest has been manifested by the public in the collection ; for in the two months during which it has been open to the general public, as many as 48,093 persons have visited it, of whom 5,126 persons paid for admission ; the latter number being much greater than that which any previous exhibition has drawn in a similar period. The pui)lic has had the advantage of seeing in the Museum upwards of 100 articles of high artistic and pecuniary value, which Mr. Field deposited in it for a considerable time. These additions have much increased the attractions ol the Museum, and added considerably to the number of visitors, although the number of days on which the Museum has been opened was less than in the preceding year. 1850, open 210 days, number of visitors 111,768 1855, open 231 days, •' " 78,427 Increase of visitors in 1856..... 33,341 Circulating Museum. This collection, which consists of a selection of objects from the Central Museum, continues to be sent to the provincial towns having Schools of Art. It meets with a varied success, according as the arrangements made by the locality for its reception are good or bad ; and it is intluenccd, also, by the character of the town in its relation to industrial pursuits. Thus the Circulating iMuseuni was exbibitetl at llauley, in the Potteries, duiing the last year, where it was visited by 20,572 persons, of whom 18,783 paid for admission. In Newcastle-on-Tyne, a much larger tc;wn, but where the industry does not bear the same relation to Art, it was only visited by 1,310 people, of whom r^Gl paid for admission. Allowing for these variations, which will always occur, the results of the experiment have been eminently successful in improving public taste in the locality to which the Museum has been sent. The total number of visitors during last year to the Circulating Museum was 32,852, of whom 27,480 were admitted by payment. Visitors, uiider certain ru!?s, are allowed to make drawings of the objects ex- hibited ; and in 234 cases this privilege was taken advantage of. In 185G, the tow^ns in which the (circulating iMuseum was exhibited were Sheffield, York, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Caernarvon, and Ilanlcy in the Potteries, la the previous year, the towns receiving it, with one excci :ion, were, besides being populous, en- gaged in artistic manufactures (Birmingham, Xottingliani, Macclesfield, Norwich, and Leeds), and the result, as might be expected, was shown by a larger number of visitors, amounting in that year to 55,701. It is gratifying to state that the efficiency of t!;c arrangements for the trans- port of the articles has been such, that, notwithstanding the fragile nature of many of them, not a single accident of any kind has yet occurred. Central and Circulating Library. The Lil)rary of Ait attached to the Department has been clcsed during three months, for removal, besides the usual two months of vacation. The number of visitors was 5,340 for the seven months; while that of 1855 was 7,242, showing 54 English Educational Museum. ^ an average increase on the daily attendance, the numbers being, for the two years thirty-two and thirty respectively. The increase in the subscribers mentioned in last year's report also continues, if deductions be made lor the thn^e months of removal. Arrangements have been made to circulate important Works of Art from the Central Library through the provincial schools. The committee of the schools have shown great interest in this proposal, and have offered various uselui suggestions for the ethcient working of the system. Museum of Irish Industry. The collections of this Museum have had considerable accessions durins; the past year. The Museum has been visited during the day by 15,32J> persons; and in the evenings, when lectures are being delivered, by 16,282 persons, the total number being 31,011. This shows an increase of 6,603 above the returns for the previous year. Royal Dublin Society. Tht; varied objects of this society are prosecuted with increased vigour, and a marl\ed im])rovement has occurred in the returns of the present year in most of its departments. lloiAL Zoological Society of Ireland. The Zoological Society, which recei/cs an annual grant of £500, attracts a large number of the working classes to its gardens, as many as 108.767 persons having paid the lowest admi.ssion fee of Id. On the whole year, 'he nuniber of visitors amounted to 124,976, which is a less iiumber than in the previous year (138,019.) Committee of Lectures. The Committee of Lectures continue? to arrange for the lectures common to the Royal Dublin Society and to the Museum of Irish Industry, and also to or- ganize and superintenu ihe courses of popular lectures in the provinces Witii the view of obtaining some positive indications as to the results of such popular teaching, this Board authorized the expenditure of a small sum (£200) for the purpose of iiisituting examinations and awarding prizes on the termination of each course of lectures. Scottish Industrial and Natural History Museum. The interest manifested in the National Museum in Scotland has produced large accessions to its collections during the past year. Ready access to the Museum, free of charge, is given to the students of Natural Histr:y attending tL^. University, and the different denominational Colleges in Edinburgh. IL Aid to Schools under the Inspection of the Department, having nEPEBENCB TO Secondary Ed'cation. Local Schools or Art. The mode in which the Department promotes instruction in Art throughout English Educational Museum. 55 the country, has been explained in previous reports, and it may now be suflicient to describe the general results of the action. The advanced instruction in Art given in the schools has been made more efficient during the past year by the introduction of a constant system of inspec- tion. In ibrmer years, the actual inspection of Art Schools was occasional only, but certain works wore required to be sent up to London for inspection and ex- hibition, and rewards were then given according to their excellence. By this system, the whole works of the school did not come under inspection ; and when the works involved a knowledge of the science of form, such as geometry, per- spective, and orthographic projection, there was no evidence that the student understood the principles upon which he worked, as good execution only v'as considered, and the work might be a mere copy. The Metropolitan Exhibition was in consequence discoMtinueJ, an i Inspectors were sent to each town where there was a School of Art to examine all the works of the school, and to reward excellence by local medals. The woiks thus rewarded are to be collected and exhibited in one common annual exhibition, which during the present year will be held in Manchester, and a limited number of the most deserving of all the works which have obtained local medals will be rewarded with national medals. A'^ery favourable effects are found to arise from this change in the system of exhibition and prizes. The Schools of Art contiuue to operate upon primary schools, which are taught drawing through their ngency. This part of their duty will be fully ex- plained in a further section of the Report. The number of Local Schools of Art in the provinces amounts to fifty-six, being an increase of three during the past year : adding the nine district Metro- politan schools, the training and female schools, the total number of Art Schools now under the Department is sixty-nine. The following returns will show the number of students of all classes who have attended them in 1856, as compared with the corresponding period in the previous year: — 1855. lo56. Provincial school* 8,274. ..10,204 Metropolitan district schools 466 476 Central female schools 144 .... 126 Masters in uaining 79 106 Schoolmasters, pupil-teachers, &c 1,547 1,425 10,510 12337 Makmg a genera! return of their numbers, it would be as follows : — 1855. 1856. / Pupils at Schools of Art 10,510.... 12,837 Pupils at Public Schools 18,988 .... 22,746 29,498 .^5,083 56 English Educfttional Museum, L(3CAL Schools op Science. During tlie last yvnv the attendance nt the S'^hools of Science, including under that designntion N.'ivi}?ation and Trade ^^cnooU, as well as separate scien- tific iiistilutions, have considerably increased. In the year ending December, 18j5, 0,138 persons attended the schools and public lectures given in connexion with them. In the year endinif December, 1850, the number of persons who at- tended these schools amounted 11,001. New schools were opened in 1856, at Aberdeen, Lristtd, Leeds, London, Newcasile, and Waterlbrd. The scientific schools are of two kinds, viz., secondary schools, in whit-h only science is taught ; and intermediate schools, in which aihanced elementary instruction is given to prepare the pupils lor scientific instruction. Periodical examinations for prizes are now held at each of the separate scien- tific and intermediate schools, and it is the intention of your Lordships to take into consideration, how far ihe benefit of such examinations may be extended to the general public, whether they attend the schools or not. The application of a system of examinations to the courses of public lectures has already been al- luded to. The intermediate trade and navigation schools continue to increase steadily in the number of pupils. It was explained in the last report that separate scientific institutions were too fir a|)art from the elementary school to prove a permanent success, without some intermediate instruction to prepare tlu " wdio have been educated in such schools to take advantage of special scientific instruction. Accordingly, in the trade and navigation schools, elementary or junior divisions both for youths and adults hav^; been established, with the view of communicating the knowledge necessary to act as the basis for scientific instruction. This has produced a favourablo result, and, as will be observed by the returns, a largely increased attendance. At the same time it has added to the expenses of the school. This has been met, to some extent, by sending the teachers in training to the provincial schools, to take charge of tlie junior classes, until the increase in the numbers of the pupils woulil juslil'y the committees of management in ap- pointing assistant-masters. It wduld, no doubt, be very easy, both with regard to navigation and trade schools, to render them at once self-supporting, by devoting the attention of the masters to the alults who are willing to attend them and pay considerable fees. In regard to navigation schools, this is especially the case. But sailors who come into port only for a few weeks at a time cannot be thoroughly grounded in the science of their occupations, and the knowledge communicated to them must be necessarily of an empirical and superficial character. On the other hand, boys who are destined for a seafaring life may be kept one or two years at such schools, and may be well grounded in the principles of navigation. Instruc- tion of this kind for sons of sailors is, however, new to the maritime population, and it will take some time bef )re the necessity for it is fully recognized. In a national point of view, your Lordships have recognized the importance of securing an attendance of boys to the navigation schools, rather than that of adults. I am English Educational Mtteeum. 57 t>. gind to state tliat tliere Is a steady increase in the numbers of boys in all the schools, and in coHsi-quonco of iho larger number of teachers there h;is also been an augmentation in the numbers of adults. Although for two or three years the schools for boys may not be Self-supporting, if they increase as steadily as they do at pro'-ent we may look to the time when even this section of the schools will bo found to derive a sufTieient sum from fees of pupils to meet the ex|)enses attendant upon them. Mr. Hughes, the Inspt-cfor of Navigation Schools, has examined all of them, and especially distinguishes the school at Hull for the elRciency of its instruction. I am III. Aid to Schools not connected with the Department. Primary Instruction. The diffusion of primary instruction in Art engages the anxious attention of the Department. Each Art School attaches to itself a certain number of public or private schools, which receive one or more lessons weekly in elementary drawing. Facilities are also given to the teachers and pupil-teachers of public Bchools to qualify themselves to impart instruction in drawing to the pupils under their care. In the provincial schools, 1,231 teachers and pupil-teachers have availed themselves of those facilities during the past year, the return for the pre- vious year, in the same schools, being 1,097. It is gratifying to find that the teachers of public schools are now, in many instance.'!, able to communicate the necessary elementary instruction by thoraselves, and thus benefit more largely by the aid of the teachers of the Art schools. Including the public schools in con- nexion with the Training School in London, 22,746 children were taught drawing last year, while in the previous year the number taught was 18,988. Your Lordsliips considered it to be desirable to give a further impulse to the diffusion of primary instruction, and accordingly small rewards of instruments and materials for drawing have been offered as rewards to all scholars who are suc- cessful in completing the papers included in the examination of the firijt grade. It was not made a condition in these examinations, that the candidates should have attended schools in connexion with this Department. The public object to be attained is, that a certain amount of power in drawing should be possessed by all, and it is a matter of indifference where the instruction has been received. As the State desires to have a certain result, it may pay for it, without inquiring into the means by which it has been produced, if it be satisfied that the instruction given is of a sound character. It may be contended, however, that under an open system of competition of this kind, the public money might be expended in pro- moting Art instruction among classes who were sufficiently well able to obtain it without the aid of the State. But as the whole money value of the prize offered for competition is limited to a few shillings, there is but little inducement offered by it for the higher classes to enter into competition ; while in the present im- perfect state of instruction in Art, it would be impolitic to exclude any persons who desired to learn drawing in the precise and systematic manner required for successful E * 68 Etifflish Eclncational 3hsenm. competition, even for these smnll prizes. The total omoimt to he expctKlod in prizes of this kind cnn nlwnys be regulated, and as the dennnnd for tiiem incrcaseg the standard of excellence can readily be raised. The introduction of scientific teaching, ns a separate branch of study to primary schcMils, h attended with considerable difliculties, and can only be carried out gradually and with much caution. Already the claims upon the attention of the pujiils are so numerous, that without affecting the main objects of the school, it would be difficult to obtain separate periods for scientific lessons. The first point for success is to enable the schoolmasters to illustrate the common lessons by his own scientific knowledge, and with this view^, increased attention has been given to instruction in science in Training Schools. Tlio Department has also in its separate Schools of Science formed classes for schoolmasters and pupil-teachers. The Training Schools throughout the country have hitherto chiefly cultivated the physical rather than the natural sciences, and when the schoolma>ter intro- duces science into his primary school, he generally selects mechanics, physics, or chemistry, as the objects of study. But the sciences of observation, such as zoology, botany, and physiology, are more suitable to the children of primary schools, than the abstract physical scie;ices referred to, which are better adapted for secondary schools. The study of the sciences of observation wonid naturally aid and be aided by instruction in drawing, and would implant that love of nature which is required to insure the success of the intermediate schools and separate scientific institutions throughout the country. If these views are correct, it will be for your Lordships to consider whether it would not be desirabl-; to induce an increased study of the sciences of observation in the Training Colleges. Some of the physical sciences, such as chemistry and experimental physics, are required to explain several of the most common phenomen'i, of life, and, in this point of view, may be studied with advantage even in a primary school ; while, as their abstrac- tions are reli ved by illustrations, they compel observation ; but, as a whole, they do not appear to be so well suited to educe a love of nature in the minds of children as a knnvledge of the plants, animals, and stones seen in their daily walks. V^ A» IV. Aid to Schools bv the Formation and Diffusion of Examples, as a MEANS of Study. "With a view to improve the means of instruction, both in primary and ■secondary schools, an Educational Museum is now in the course of organization, and will soon be opened to the public. Its nucleus has for some time been in the possession of the Government, having been presented to it at the close of the Educational Exhibition in St. Martin's Hall, in 1851. Tliis nucleus proved, on examination, to be insufficient for the purposes of a permanent Museum, and ac- cordingly a classification of the objects required for such a collection has been made, and the co-operation of the producers of educational apparatus has been English Educational Museum, 59 V^ # secured. The want of sucli a Museum lias Ions? been foU, and its establishment has met wuh hearty support from the educational societies, manufacturers of apparatus, and publishers. The objects exhibited in it will be fuUy available to those wild desire to <»l)t;iin information in regard to the e'i;H rive gladly taken advantage of the * See Ground Tlan, faciug tlie title page. «0 English Edvcatianal Museum* rii space offered by it, and already it is fully occupied. T'le Commissioners of Patents have organized a Museum of Patented Inventions, ard will exhibit it to the public in this building. The Committee of the Architeccura Museum are now arranging in it an interesting collection of arch!^»cii:ral casts, chiefly of the mediaeval period. The Institute of British Sculptors has appropriated a portion of the gallery to ft display of works of English artists. Tlie Commissioners of the Exhibition of 1851 have und'Ttaken to illustrate the usef'.u applications of animal products, in addition to the objects presented to them alter the Exhibition. The museums now referred to, and those belonging to the Department, such as the Museum of Ornamental Art and the Educational Museum, will completely fill the large iron building at South Kensington. Educatjonal Museum, under the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council on Education, 1. To aid all classes of the public in carrying out the work of national education, and especially those engaged in teaching, the Lords of the Committee on Education have established, at ihe new buildings at South Kensington, a Museum, which exhibits, under a proper classification, all important books, diagrams, illu'strations, and apparatus connected with education, already in use or which may be published from time to time, either at home or abroad. 2. The public will be admitted free to the Museum, as a public exhibition, on certain days of tb"? week; and on Ouher days, which will be reserved for students* opportunity will be given to examine and consult the objects. 3. The objects exhibited at St. Martin's Hall, in 1854, which were presented to the Society of Arts, and by that Society given to the Education Board, in order to found a Museum, form part of the Educational Museum- The producers of apparatus, books, diagrams, map?, &c,, used in teaching, have also the privilege, subject to certain regulations, of placing their pubHcations and productions in the Museum, thus making them known to the public. 4. The books and objects are grouped under the following divisions : — 1. School buildings and fittings, forms, desks, slates, plans, models, &c. 2. General education, including reading, writing, grammar^ arithmetic, mathematics, foreign languages, and histories* 3. Drawing and the fine arts. 4. Music. 5. Household Economy. 6. Geography ar.d astronomy. 7. Natural history, including geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology, and physiology. 8 Chemistry. ;-. Physics. 10. Mechanics. n'^ <. -• i English Educational Mksenm, 61 1 1. Apparatus for teaching persons of deficient faculties. a. Persons physically deficient, such <»« the deaf, dumb, and blind. b. Persons mentally deficient, such as idiots, imbeciles, and the insane. 13." Physical training, or means for promoting the health of the body. 5. In organizing the Museum, the Committee on Education hope to have the co-operation of all who are interested in the object. Books, diagrams, maps, apparatus, &c., intended for the Museum, may be addressed to the Secretary of the Department of Science and Art. N* k Summary, It may be useful to make a general summary of the information given in detail in various parts of the report. In nearly all the Museums and Libraries in connexion with the Department throughout the kingdom, a considerable increase in the number of visitors has taken place during the last year. The total number of persons amounted to 366,838, being an increase of 35,302 persons on the return for 1855. This num- ber would no doubt have been still greater if it had not bsen found necessary to close the Central Art Museum for the last three months of the year, with a view of removing it from Marlborough House to South Kensington. The Botanical Gardens in Dublin have been visited by 32,900, and the Zoological Gardens in that city by 12-1,970 pciSons ; in the former case, the in- crease is 2,050 visitors : in the latter case, the decrease is 13,000. The Exhibition of the Soulages collection was visited by upwards of 48,000 visitors, and the agricultural and other exhibitions of the Royal Dublin Society by 14,691 persons. The geological surveys in Great Britain and Ireland continue to be carried on as rapidly as the present number of surveyors will permit. In England, 1,149 square miles have been surveyed, and sections illustrating the coal-fields have been levelled over 300 miles. In Scotland, the counties of Edinburgh and Had- dington are nearly completed. In Ireland, 1,604 square miles of country have been surveyed, and pcctions have been run along 417 miles of rugged coast. The Ordnance nii-iJS iiow include many of the most important mining districts of the kingdom, the inhabitants of which naturally desire to have a correct survey of their mineral resources as soon as possible. To accomplish this, a small increase in the number of surveyors is recommended. The Mining Record Office continues to amass and publish important statistical returns regarding the mineral produce of the kingdom. The Schools of Art were attended, in 1850, by 13,337 persons, and taught 62 Functions of the Department of ' I 1 I i I drawing to 22,746 children in elementary schools. In the correSj?onding returns of the previous year, 10,510 students attended the schools, and 18,988 children were taught. A more rigorous system of inspection and examination has been introduced into the schools, with beneficial results. * The separate schools of science and public lectures in connexion with them were attended by 11,661 persons; the number for the corresponding period in 1855 being 9,128. Examinations have been instituted in connexion with the public lectures, and have much increased their efficiency. Separate instruction in science is not given in elementary schools through the agency of the provincial scientific schools ; but classes for the instruction of schoolmasters have been opened, and apparatus for scientific illustration has been extensively furnished at a reduced cost to the teachers who are able to show that they can use it by passing a prescibed examination. A Gallery of Biitish Art, founded by Mr. Sheepshanks, who Las munificently given his valuable collection of paintings and drawings to the nation, is now in course of erection, and will shortly be completed. A new Museum of educational appliances has been organized, and will be opened to the public next month. Various public bodies and societies have co-operated with the Department to render the iron Museum at South Kensington instructive to the public. The Commis- sioners of the Exhibition of 1851 will display a Museum of animal products. The Commissioners of Patents have formed a new Museum of patented inventions. The Architectural Museum exhibits a valuable collection of casts and models ; and the Institute of British Sculptors, illustrations of the works of British sculpture. Lyon Playfair. Appendix B. ON THE FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND ART IN ENGLAND. It may not be uninteresting to give in conclusion the following abstract of a recent address delivered at Kensington by Henry Cole, Esq., C. B., under the direction of the Earl of Granville. The History and Functions op the Science and Art Department, by Mr. Henry Cole, C. B. Mr. Cole said, — It has seemed right to the Lord President of the Council and the Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education, to direct that a series of introductory explanations of the science and art department should be given, when, since the occurrence of several changes, most of its functions may be said to have come fliirly into action. At the beginning of this year the department was a branch of the Board of Trade, now it is a division of the Committee of ^ Science and Art in England. 63 ^v < i Council on Education. Its offices, schools, and the Museum of Art were at Marl- borough House, now they are at South Kensington. Moreover, the department has become charged with the general superintendence of a mu?eum embracing many other objects besides those of art, and several collections which are the pro- perty of pr'vate bodies. Some Avho but recently have paid attention to the subject, have thought that the science and art department is a new creation of the Government, and have ex- pressed surprise at the important item which its expenses make in the parliamentary estimates of the year. The science and art department is rather a consolidation of institutions, most of which have been long established, than the creation of any new ones. The oldest institution connected with the department is the Royal Dublin Society, which as early as 1800 received an annual public grant of £15,500. The School of Mines, Geological Museum in Jermyn Street, and Geological Survey were in process of organization from 1837 to 1851, and were I'laced under the Chief Commissioner of Public Works. The Industrial Museum of Ireland owes its origin to Sir Robert Peel in 1815, and was also subject to the Chief Commissioner of Works, whilst the School of Design, which is the parent of the present schools of art located in all parts of the United Kingdom, and supported mainly by local authority and action, was founded in 1837 by Mr. Poulett Thompson, afterwards Lord Sydenham, and were subject to the authority of the Board of Trade. All these institutions had in view the promotion of scientific and artistic knowledge of an industrial tendency at the expense of the State, but they acted in different ways, independently of each other, and were subject to different kinds of ministerial responsibility. After the Exhibition of 1851, public opinion unanimously demanded that the State should give more systematic assistance to the scientific and artistic education of the people than it had hitherto done ; and it was an obvious process, and in accordance with the working of institutions in this country, rather to improve and consolidate what existed already than to create a new institution. Accordingly in 1852, whilst Mr. Card well was president of the Board of Trade, the Royal Dublin Society, Mining Museum and School in Jermyn Street, the in- dustrial museums of Ireland and Scotland, with the department of practical art, were united to form the department of science and art under a single parliamentary authority, and were required to publish an annual statement of the results of their working. One effect of this consolidation, signally beneficial, has been to call increased public attention to them, and generally to lead the public more largely to demand the assistance offered by them than when they wore insulated. In the year 1851, before any oonsolidation took place, the Parliamontary votes on behalf of these institutions exceeded £40,000. Whilst for the last year, when the action has been greatly extended, numerous new duties undertaken, and the numbers of persons 6i Functions of the Department of benefited in various ways increased many thousands, tlie parliamentary vote amounted to £73,000. Tlie science and art department now constitutes the division of the Committee of Council on Education charged with the duty of offering to the public increased meuns for promoting secondary or adult education. All the functions attaching to primary education remain as a separate division of the Committee of Council, and are carried on at Whitehall. The recent transfer of the science and art department from the Bor.rd of Trade has not affected them, except to enable the President and Vice-President to render the working of any points of contact between primary and secondary education harmonious and consistent. The teaching of the applied sciences — chemistry, physics, natural history, mechanics, navigation, and the fine arts, taking drawing as an indispensable begin- ning — constitutes the precise object of secondary education, developed l\x various ■ways by means of museums, schools, public examinations, payments for results, and the preparation of examples. Except in the case of the ])ublic museums, which the public enter without payment at certain times, the aid offered by the department can only be obtained by a voluntary co-operation on the part of the public, and moderate payments, varying according to the means of the applicants for instruction, afford the test that the assistance sought is really valued. Under this system all classes are enabled to take their proper share in it, and equal oppor- tunities are afforded to the whole people for developing any talent they may be endowed with. The work thus done is mainly done by the public itself on a self- supporting basis as fiir as possible, whilst .lie State avoids the error of continental systems, of taking the principal and dominant part in secondary education. %< It has been said, and particularly in reference to drawing, that the state is in- structing people beyond their stations. I will only say, that Adam Smith half a century ago observed, that, " there is scarce a c-^mmon trade which does not afford some opportunities of applying to it the principles of geometry and mechanics, and which would not therefore gradually exercise and improve the people in those principles, the necessary introduction to the most sublime as well as to the most useful sciences. The public can encourage the acquisition of those most essential parts of education by giving small premiums and little badges of distinction to the children of the common people who excel in tbem," Some pains have been bestowed to take care that the facilities in obtaining increased knowledge in science and art offered by the State shall not weaken or supersede individual exertions, but, on the contrary, aid and stimulate them by doing only those things which must either be done by some central aiithority or would be left undone. The argument is still held, but with less pertinacity than heretofore, that the State ought to abstain from all interference whatever in public education. One dl Science and Art in Englcmd. 65 V. giound is, that everything possible should be left to the laissez /aire principle, and another, that whatever the State undertakes it must necessarily do less well than' the individual could do it. Both these positions, true as broad principles, have in respect of public education been so unanswerably controverted by the first and most lil)eral of modern English writers on Political Economy, John Stuart Mill, that it is on!}' necessary to refer to his work, where he proves that education is one of those things which it is admissible in principle that a Government should provide for the people, and that help in education is help towards doing without help, and favorable to the spirit of independence. Passing from the question of general education to the specific action of the department, it will be right to give some instances of its functions which could not be carried out by any private agency. Neither Navigation Schools nor Schools of Art, in the present state of public intelligence, could well exist without the assist- ance that the State affords to them. The collecting of casts and examples of art from the national museums of other countries could only be systematically carried on by a government agency. Already the French Government have permitted electrotypes and casts to be taken of the finest original woiks in the Louvre, Hotel de Cluny, and Musee de Anillerie, at Paris, and these repetitions may be seen in the Museum. Arrangements have been made to obtain similar privileges in Dresden, Berlin, B'raiikfort, Vienna, &c. Thus in a few years copies taken by means of elec- tricity and photography of the great A.rt-treasures in Europe will be collected for the benefit of this country \, and, by a self-acting process be distributed as prizes to local nmsoums and schools, and thus will lay the foundations for the esialilishraent of local museums of art, wherever the people themselves may make the necessary arrangements for housing and preserving them. Another instance of the necessity for a central action, which may be open to public criticism and above the suspicion of partiality in administration, is shown by the establishment of the educational museum. This museum is for the most part the assemblage of books, objects, and appliances for aiding education produced by diiferent agencies, all competitors with one another. The producers of educational books and apparatus here willingly submit in competition to the public the publications they have issued. The public here consult and compare together the different models of schools recommended by the National Society, the Home and Colonial Society, the Homerlou College and others. The total national expenditure for promoting public education and science and art in every way through the primary division of the Education Board, the British Museum, National Gallery, grants to universities, and grant to this department, may be taken at the present time, to be in round numbers a million of pounds sterling, which divided among our population, say, of 30,000,000, makes the con- tribution of each to average nine pence per head per annum. It is difficult to calculate the annual value of the production of this country ; but I think, seeing that our imports and exports last year amonnted to £288,545,080, it is not an over estimate to place it as being worth £400,000,000 a-year. The Slate contribution 66 Functions of the Department of towards education, science and arf, which vitally influences this enormous amount, therefore, bears the proportion of the outlay of one pound on behalf of education, science and art, for every £400 of production, or one penny in every £1 13s. 4d. The annual parliamentary vote for the science and art department only bemg under £75,000, is less than a five-thousandth part of the estimated annual production, and is about a thousandth part of the annual taxation of the country. It is as if a man with £1,000 a-year devoted £2 6s. 3d. a-year to the general education of his children, and gave them the additional advantages of drawing lessons and a little navigation, at a cost to himself of Sh. 9d. a-year. In the same proportion the agricultural labourer, who earns only £25 a-ycar devotes Is. 3d. to the education of his family, and has to deny himself the luxury of half a pint of beer in a year in helping his children to a knowledge of drawing and enabling them to cut and rule straight lines. The department fully recognizes the broad principle that, in all its proceedings it is itself the servant of, or rather perhaps a partner with, the public. Having essayed to discover what appear to be public wants in the promotion of science and art, the course of the department is matured by the Committee of Council on Edu- cation and published ; and it rests wholly with the public to accept or not the offer of assistance thus made. The establ'shment of a local school of science, navigation, or of art, originates entirely with the locality that wantb it, and before the department acts, certain things must be done, suitable premises must be found, and a certain constituency registered as being willing to be taught for a given time. The department then grants partial aid in furnishing the necessary examples, recommends a master, who is appointed by a local committee, if approved, inspects the Avorking, tests the results by examination, and awards prizes. This partnership having })cen thus matured, all the advantages of the central museum and library, and any experience the department may have to offer, are placed at the disposal of every school, to use as it finds occasion. The number of navigation or science schools of all kinds at the present time in connexion wiiu the department is twenty-two. The number of schools of art throughout the United Kingdom at the present time is sixty-five ; and, according to the last returns, they were the means of educating upwards of 35,000 students in drawing and painting. Those numbers include children in poor schools under instruction in drawing. Since the schools of design were expanded into schools of art, and made to embrace the teaching of drawing in public schools, the progress has been as follows : — In 1851, 8,296 students learning drawing cost the State £3 2s. 4d. each. In 1856, 35,000 students cost che State about ISs. each, as nearly as can be estimated. But this number is really insignificant, beinf; a trifle more than 1 in 1,000 of the population, and it is disheartening to feci that, accoiiling to the present state of public f^^eling for art, perhaps half a century inusl elapse befjre every mechanic will have had the means in his youth of acquiring those elementary principles of art which would im^^iove the daily work of his future life. ^ 'K iM I Science and Art in England, 67 ^ < It is not made necessary to create separate and special schools for teaching elementary science and drawing. Rules arc established whereby they may be introduced Into primary and existing public schools. Ten or fewer primary schools, offering in the aggregate 500 children for indtruction in drawing, may obtain the services of a certificated teacher of art, and the aid of the department. This is a temporary measure until the general schoolmasters have acquired the power of teaching drawing concurrently with writing. The primary division of the educa- tion board will adtl eight pounds annually to the schoohnaster's certificate allowance when he is able to do this. It will be a great step when one town can show that drawing is taught in all ils public schools ; the schoolmaster teaching the elements, and the art master of the district teaching an advanced class and inspecting the whole. Besides this direct action, the dcpartnif n further aids by examination and prizes. There are three grades of examinations, and every one, however taught, is free to offer himself or herself fjr examination and take the prize attached to the grade. These prizes begin with a pair of compasscss and terminate with ten pounds wo'-th ',;f "rtorlcs of art given to the School of Art which produces the student who successfully competes with all the other students of the whole schools. These prizes themselves exert a beneficial influence generally. A trade in cheap drawing instruments and drawing boards has almost been created since these prizes were instituted. The electrotype reproductions being in the general market, cannot fail to improve public taste. And the publication of such works as Owen Jones' on ornament is assisted by them, without engaging the State in the business of a publisher, as on the Continent. The suggestion of improved dingrams and examples is another function of the department. It is not too much to say, that the publication of diagrams like Pro- fessor Hcnslow's for botany, Mr. Patterson's for zoology, and Mr. Marshall's for physiology, all suggested by the department, but published in the ordinary chan- nels of trade, are Ure best which can be shown in Europe. In the Paris Exhibition there was no paralell exhibition to our own of the aids for teaching science and art, and ihi ; result is due to the abstinence of the department from invading the province of thetradcsman, which is too common abroad. In the use of these examples by poor schools only, the department is authorized to grant an aid of about forty per cent. Since this system was instituted in 1852, upwards of 1,600 public schools have been assisted, and all the private schools in the country have had better examples placed before them. The public attendance at this museum thus far has been very remarkable. Since the museum was opened in the middle of last June the average numbers attending monthly have been upwards of forty-four thousand. At Marlborough House (luring the year 1855, being the last before the removal, the average numbers attending monthly were seven thousand eight hundred. Should the rate of the present numbers be maintained they will be above half a million in the year, and exceed the nimibers who vis^ited the British Museum in 1854 and 1855, as well as _. 68 Funciiom of the Department of the visitors both to the National Gallery at Charing Cross, and Marlborough House, which together, in 1856, were only 435,990. It hail been predicted that the num- bers who attended the Museum at Marlborough House would not be mairtained here ; but the facts have disproved the prophecy, and now it ajipears that, notwith- standing the supposed disadvantage of site, the attraction having been increased has more than overcome the diminished facility of access. This fact sidds another proof to those signally shown by the Exhibition of 1851, and still more by the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, which have proved conclusively that it is the attraction and not the site which regulates the numbers of visitors. A^ the Crystal Palace thousands incur the cost of travel, and pay for admission, exceeding the total of all the visitors to all the gratuitous public museums in the metropolis. Since this Museum has been opened, the rate of attendance h^s provci^ th>'t, as respeets the convenience of the publ' its site is as good as tha . .'"Rr , Sqi ire, Marlborough House, or Trafalgar Squaie, or die Adelphi, all of tiiwui ::i'. which, on a plan, seem to be more in the centre of the population, whils' th. >' urt o .re smoky certainly. The numbers who hfive thus been led to visit the model > of pa- ^od iventions at South Kensington have, in the proportion of thirty to one, exceeded the visitors to the AuTiual Exhibition of patented novelties which takes place in the rooms of the Society of Arts in the Adelphi, in theory a central situation most easy of access. No doubt the visitors to the patented inventions have been largely augmented by the visitors to other collections. But it is not only as a metropolitan instituiion that this Museum is to be looked at. Its destiny is rather to become the central storehouse or treasury of science and art for the use of the whole kingdom. As soon as arrangements are made it is probable that any object that can properly be circulated to localities, should be sent upon a demand being made by the local authorities. The principle is already fully at work, and its extension to meet the public wants depends altogether upon the means which the public may induce Parliament to furnish. It may be hoped by this principle of circulation to stimulate localities to establish museums and libraries for themselves, or at least to provide proper accommodation to receive specimens lent for exhibition. Mr. Shcpshanks' noble gift of pictures establishes either Kensington as the central rcceptable for them, or if not Kensington then Cambridge, whilst it permits the loan of them to local schools of art. Mr. Sheepshanks has thus laid the foun- dation of a system whereby national pictures may be circulated to country galleries If sufficient houseroom be provided by the nation at Kensington, doubtless other public benefacters will follow Mr. Sheepshanks good example, and make other gifts from which every local gallery of art may derive its share of advantages. For more than fifty years, long before railways offered increased facilities of transport, the principle of lending pictures to the British Institution in London has been successful in action, and the most precious works of art from private galleries have been ungrudgingly stript from the walls of their owners and lent annually for i by Science and Art in England, 69 the bciR'fit of ij lli.-'itcd public. Anniinl exhibitions of modern paintings, lent for the purpcyHC, take plice in Liverpool, Manehoster, Binningham, Glasgow, and else- where. And what ibc wealthy classes have thus done lor themselves may now be done f(.r the benefit of the poorer elasses in their own localities, though the instru- inentality of the South Kensington Museum acting in concert with local aid. The nu . rof worksofthc highet aa is limited, and it cannot be expected that every l