lute Arts.
TILE ARCHITECTURAL PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION.
The second annual exhibition of this most useful and excellent society has just opened at the old Water•Colour Gallery and brings prominently forward the claims of the undertaking upon public attention. We have before mentioned its purpose and scope, and may now leave it to speak almost entirely for itself—which it is well capable of doing. The very name of the association is sufficient description of its object; its.ma- nagenient is in a high degree efficient and laudable. The subscriber gets a most ample—indeed lavish—return for his guinea, and is left to his own unfettered choice, whether of a few large or several small photo- graphs, whether of classic medireval, or modern, foreign or domestic, monuments. This year the photographic series are from Rome and the vicinity by Mr. Macpherson ; from Venice by Signori Cimetta and Ponti, the latter of whom ranges foramina more excursively over Northern Italy as well;' from England by Mr. Cade, Mr. Cocke' Mr. Bedford, and others ; from Cairo by Messrs. Robertson and Beato; from Spain by Lousada and Clifford, (the latter not yet arrived); from Egypt, with a few from Scotland and Wales, by Mr. Frith. The panorama of Cairo by this gentleman, 81 feet by nearly 2 in dimensions, is one of the most remarkable photographs for size—not to speak of quality— which have been produced. M. 13aldus is the representative of France— chiefly from Paris and Caen; but that noble mine of architectural art has been very scantily worked this year, owing chiefly, we presume, to the failure of the contributions looked for front MM. Bisson. Another year may make up for the deficiency.
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