CHURCH OF ENGLAND PORTRAITS,*
There is something of -a sectarian 4ar in the title of this new series of photographic 'portraits, though it May be most unobjectionably meant indeed, Quip those need find offence herein who seek it.The unpreju- diced person who dislikes the title without quite knowing why will per- heirs 'discover on reflection that the reason is one which ought to trouble the churchman rather thanthe nonconformist—namely, that the church does not unfortunately just now furnish so eminent a bead-roll Of names as to call for a separate-gallery to itself; - so that-these who take a spe- cial interest in the series for its own sake must be such only as see in the churchman the church to which he belongs. Beyond this preliminary ebjection, if it deserves to be so considered; we think the execution of the scheme, to judge from this first number, Open to some ex- °option. The portrait of the Archbishop, of Canterbury is taken, not from the Archbishop himself direct, but from a painting of the Arch- bishop based upon a phptograph Jy Messrs...Dickinson. It is in excel- lent likeness : nevertheless, the intrinsic principle and idea of 'a photo- graphic portrait-series is to have them taken from the life itself, and we think that on various accounts the preferable system.
The of England Photographic Portrait Gallery. Part I.-4-The Arch- bishop olCanterbury. Published by Mason and Co.
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