ART.JOURNAT. ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUE

  Messrs. WoouLms, of London, exhibit a great and very deservedly inasmuch
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fue hac sthe   characbter  applibedwith   success   to   the   adornm ent
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variety of new and beautiful designs in paper- of each style, and the taste
of each age, have been  walls. The series upon the present -page. are
hangings, a branch of the induistrial arts which  studied, anid its most
characteristic features good examples of this fact, and exhibit much
has received much improvement during the last
quarter of a century in England; perhaps we
may safely assert that there is scarcely any one
trade in which greater progress is visible. The




























                                              variety of style; the elongated
panel, is a free amid all the changes of fashion. The gorgeous
                                              translation of the best Italian
period, when a taste of Persia has furnished the theme of the
                                              Raffaelle did not disdain to
devote his tran- second of our series, the fanciful and brilliant
                                              scendant genius to the walls
of a Loggia, and  hues of which are, of course, but to be guessed
                                              produce a style which has neverbeen
surpassed, at without the aid of colour; the same remark












































reputation for good desin and tasteful colouring must apply to our third
example, in which the   re-produced with great success, and at a  cost
whptaicthontinnta hoo usdesig   almotstemolopol~ise  syle of the decoration
adopted in that far-famed   which enables the moderately-wealthy to rival
is now abundantly shared by the home producer.uligteAbmr-a              
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