Another view of the bust which figures in the fifth plate of this work.
Is has often been said, and has grown into a proverb, that there is no
royal road to learning of any kind. But the proverb is fallacious: for
there is, assuredly, a royal road to _Drawing_, and one of these days,
when more known and better explored, it will probably be much frequented.
Already sundry _amateurs_ have laid down the pencil and armed themselves
with chemical solutions and with _camera obscuræ._ Those amateurs
especially, and they are not few, who find the rules of _perspective_
difficult to learn and to apply—and who moreover have the misfortune to be
lazy—prefer to use a method which dispenses with all that trouble. And
even accomplished artists now avail themselves of an invention which
delineates in a few moments the almost endless details of Gothic
architecture which a whole day would hardly suffice to draw correctly in
the ordinary manner.
[PLATE XVIII. GATE OF CHRISTCHURCH.]