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Identifier: worldsopportunit00guer (find matches)
Title: The world's opportunities and how to use them
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Guernsey, Alfred H. (Alfred Hudson), 1824-1902
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
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r example, shouldbe of a neutral tint, suitable in tone to its character and situation. The demand for painted glass has produced among us artistscapable of meeting all desires. Forty-five years ago there wasnot a single manufactory of this kind in the United States.Now, within the compass of a few streets, near Broadway andthe Fifth Avenue, in New York, one may count the studios of ascore of painters upon glass, and there is no considerable cityin the Union which does not possess artists of this class—attrac-tive to those who practise it from the remuneration which itaffords, and to the public from the beauty of their work. Factsfully justify the statement of Mr. Cole that glass-painting of ahigh order of art is accessible in this country, and there is alarge and increasing demand for it as a means of householddecoration —a demand which shows a constant increase. Closely allied to painting upon glass is the production ofornamented glass-ware. There is, indeed, no other substance,
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ON A MARKET-BOAT IN NORTH HOLLAND.See Note 30. OPPORTUNITIES IN THE SCIENCES AND ARTS. 423 except clay, which so readily lends itself to many useful andornamental purposes as glass. Composed of the very cheapestand most common of materials, human skill fashions it intoforms which serve to gratify not only the humblest needs, butthe most refined tastes. Ornamental glass-ware has long beena special industry of Venice. This graceful and useful art ismaking its way among us, as, indeed, it should; for there is noreason why the most common articles of glass-ware should nothave the beautiful forms which the natural beauty of the mate-rial suggests. Up to a certain point beauty costs no more thanugliness; and beyond this there is no conceivable limit to theartistic labor which may be lavished upon the shaping and orna-menting of glass-ware. Working in the Precious Metals.—In the arts of potteryand glass-working the artist and workman give value to mate-rials which are in themselves almost

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