PREFACE

THE following Lectures are printed, as far as possible, just as they were delivered. Here and there a sentence which seemed obscure has been mended, and the passages which had not been previously written, have been, of course imperfectly, supplied from memory. But I am well assured that nothing of any substantial importance which was said in the lecture-room, is either omitted, or altered in its signification; with the exception only of a few sentences struck out from the notice of the works of Turner,¹ in consequence of the impossibility of engraving the drawings by which they were illustrated, except at a cost which would have too much raised the price of the volume. Some elucidatory remarks have, however, been added at the close of the second and fourth Lectures, which I hope may be of more use than the passages which I was obliged to omit.

The drawings by which the Lectures on Architecture were illustrated have been carefully reduced, and well transferred to wood by Mr. Thurston Thompson.² Those which were given in the course of the notices of schools of painting could not be so transferred, having been drawn in colour; and I have therefore merely had a few lines, absolutely necessary to make the text intelligible, copied from engravings.³

I forgot, in preparing the second Lecture for the press, to quote a passage from Lord Lindsay’s Christian Art,

¹ [See below, p. 126.]

² [Charles Thurston Thompson (1816-1868), son of John Thompson (the wood-engraver), engraver and photographer, in which latter capacity he was employed by the Science and Art Department; he also took part in the arrangements for the Exhibition of 1851.]

³ [For the illustrations added in this edition, see above, Introduction, pp. lxxxvi,-lxxxvii.]

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