The Academy Volume 48 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ... 1877; and also a portrait in oils of Dr. J. W. Polidori, travelling physician to Byron and author of The Vampire, who was a great-uncle of the Rossettis. The "Art Annual" for 1895, being the Christmas number of the Art Journal, will be Mr, William Heinemann announces a catalogue of the pictures, chiefly of the Spanish school, contained in the Museo del Prado at Madrid, compiled by Mr. E. Lawson. The book will be illustrated. Hitherto, the only catalogue available is that of Senor Madrazo, in Spanish. Messrs. Longmans will publish this week a Handbook of Irish Pre-Christian Antiquities, by Mr. W. G. Wood-Martin, the historian of Sligo, and author of works on the lake dwellings and stone monuments of Ireland. It is proposed to hold a great exhibition of lithography in Paris next year, to celebrate the centenary of Senefelder's discovery of the art in 1796. The Timet of September 24 devotes a column and a half to the description of a Hittite seal, recently acquired by the British Museum. Besides figures with pig-tails and the symbol of the equilateral triangle, it bears an inscription which seems, though nearly effaced, to have been written in Cypriote characters. All the other known bilingual Hittite objects have had cuneiform inscriptions. The Standard states that the excavations that are being carried out by the Greek Archaeological Society on the site of ancient Eleusis have yielded some results of exceptional importance. In a very ancient and wellpreserved tomb there have been found (in addition to the skeleton of a woman) a number of articles, including earrings of fine gold, silver, and broDze, several finger rings, sixty-eight small vases of various shapes in terra-cotta, two tripods, three Egyptian scarabaei, and a small statuette of the go...