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Identifier: examplesofhouseh00smit (find matches)
Title: Examples of household taste
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Smith, Walter, 1836-1886 Smith, Walter, 1836-1886. Industrial art of the International Exhibition
Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.) Decorative arts
Publisher: New York, R. Worthington
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
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Decorated Fans: French Court. men no doubt thought that we were sufficiently behind the art-culture of thetimes to be satisfied with this riff-raff of their shops; but they quickly learnedtheir error and how much, unfortunately for their own advantage, they hadmisjudged the average American art-knowledge. It is but just to these gentle- INDUSTRIAL ART. 187 men to say thatthey willinglyacknowledgedtheir mistake,and asked butanother like op-portunity to rec-tify their error:On the otherhand, those ex-hibitors who sentgood work foundready and eagerpurchasers. Evengorgeous articlesof luxury such asonly princes inEurope couldpurchase, weresold to wealthypersons here;and it is safe tosay that neverdid foreign deal-ers make suchenormous profitsas at the Cen-tennial. Even in a na-tion like Eng-land, with whichwe have had suchintimate com-mercial relationsfor so long a time,there were ex-
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3 =0 to 188 THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1876. hibitors who hesitated and questioned whether it would pay them to send theirbest wares to this country. They were fearful that such work would not beappreciated as it deserved. One exhibitor we know of said that he neverwould have dreamed of sending the really splendid collection he did send ifit was to have been seen only by the Americans. But his goods had alwaysbeen first in the competition with European manufacturers, and he desired toshow them that he still maintained the lead. Doubtless, too, many persons sent what they did send through a feelingof national pride ; but whatever the impelling motive may have been, one and

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  • booksubject:Decorative_arts
  • bookpublisher:New_York__R__Worthington
  • bookcontributor:Sterling_and_Francine_Clark_Art_Institute_Library
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  • bookleafnumber:202
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