PREFACE.

1.-The Catalogue follows, as far as possible, the local arrangement of the articles exhibited. The Galleries and Rooms where the objects enumerated beneath will be found, are named at the headings of sections and pages.

II. The Catalogue, as last year, has furnished labels for the greater part of the objects. The labels indicate by coloured borders the country from which the object comes. Thus the border for Austria is orange; Belgium, dark blue; China and Japan, magenta ; Denmark, chocolate; France, green; German Empire, black; Greece, full brown; Italy, pearl grey; Netherlands, brown; Norway and Sweden, light blue; Russia, pale green; Spain, lemon; Switzerland, grey; Tunis, fawn; Turkey, lavender; United States, blue; United Kingdom, India, and Colonies, red.

III.-Exhibitors were requested to state the grounds upon which they offered their goods for exhibition, as "novelty," "cheapness," "excellence of manufacture," &c. Where they have done so their remarks are quoted; but it should be distinctly understood that for these remarks, and whatever may appear in the appendix to the Catalogue, the Exhibitors are wholly responsible.

IV. With a view to rendering the Catalogue as compact as possible, both the Fine Art and Industrial sections are this year included in a single voiume.

V. The system of consecutive numbering to each object, or group of objects, hitherto adopted, has been continued on account of its simplicity and facility of reference. It is thus possible

at once to identify an object without pausing to consider to what division and class it belongs, the number upon it having but one similarly numbered entry in the Catalogue to correspond.

VI. To afford the public facilities for obtaining objects at the close of the Exhibition and to Register Exhibits selected for purchase, Clerks will be employed in various parts of the building. They will be at their desks daily from 9.30 a.m. to 6 p.m., and will assist intending purchasers under the subjoined rules framed in accordance with the practice followed at the Royal Academy Exhibitions.

a The Price Clerk will register the Selection of Exhibits by intending purchasers.

Any Object or Picture not priced by the Exhibitor will be regarded by the Price Clerk as "Not for Sale," unless special instructions are given by the Owner.

c An intending purchaser will sign his name and enter his address on a Form, which will be retained as a voucher for marking the Object or Picture as selected for purchase.

d The Price Clerk will then communicate with the Owner of the Exhibit, and will enter it as selected for purchase.

e No article can be removed from the Exhibition until its close.

ƒ All duplicates must be obtained out of the Exhibition, and for them the Price Clerk will not take orders; such applications should be made direct to the Exhibitor.

g Articles selected for purchase will be removed by the Exhibitor, with whom all monetary transactions must be conducted.

VII. The public is requested to send notice of all errors that may be discovered (quoting the Catalogue Number whenever practicable), addressed to the Secretary of the Executive, London Exhibition of 1873, Upper Kensington Gore, S.W., marked "CATALOGUE" in the corner of the envelope.

FRANK REDE FOWKE,

General Editor.

INTRODUCTION.

I.-Some new features will be found to mark the Exhibition of the present year.

II. Besides the usual exhibition of modern Fine Arts, the principle of making Special Collections has been adopted. Thus Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to lend several works of John Phillip, R.A., and Thomas Creswick, R.A.; and many other proprietors have liberally contributed to the collection of works which represent the career of these distinguished Artists. It is proposed to follow a similar course in future years with other eminent deceased Artists. Her Majesty's Commissioners have accordingly decided to invite the owners of Pictures painted by the following Artists to intimate their willingness to lend such works for the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION of 1874, and they request to be favoured with any information respecting them.

III. The friends of, and owners of pictures by, the late Mrs. Carpenter, Mr. Mason, and Mr. Rankley, who have recently died, have sent specimens of their works which have been hung together. Similar Collections will probably be made every year of the works of Artists dying during the previous year.

IV. His Royal Highness the Duc de Nemours has obligingly aided in supplying the void in the representation of French Art occasioned by the International Exhibition at Vienna, by sending sixteen pictures representing the visits of Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort to France in 1843, and of King Louis Philippe to England in 1844, (Nos. 261 to 277), and Sir R. Wallace has lent his unrivalled collection of works of Meissonier, which are arranged together. (Nos. 244 to 258.)

V. Mr. J. Newton Mappin, of Sheffield, has sent eighteen interesting pictures from his collection which are also arranged together as his contribution. (Nos. 323 to 354.)

VI. Mr. Taylor has lent fifty paintings by himself illustrating Indian Life and Scenery, which are displayed as a series in the Indian Court.

VII. Sir Robert Peel has contributed paintings by Mr. Simpson illustrating incidents in the Crimea (Nos. 1,501 to 1,514); and - Mr. MacCallum has contributed twenty-four sketches from Egypt. (Nos. 1,515 to 1,539.)

VIII.-Mr. J. Anderson Rose has lent a series of sixty Etchings by Mr. J. A. McNeill Whistler. (Nos. 3,306 to 3,337, and 3,349 to 3,377-)

IX. A distinguished Committee has been formed to exhibit annually works of Fine Art executed by officers of the Army and Navy. Upwards of 300 works have been contributed this year, after a comparatively short notice, which will be found partly in the East Galleries (Nos. 2,051 to 2,271), and partly in the Galleries of the Royal Albert Hall. (Nos. 2275 to 2365). The officers of the Army and Navy have special opportunities of producing illustrations of scenery, buildings, and native customs in all parts of the world, as well as representations of scientific warfare.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY,

1873.

LIST OF HER MAJESTY'S COMMISSIONERS FOR THE
EXHIBITION OF 1851.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE ARTHUR, K.G.

H.R.H. THE PRINCE CHRISTIAN, K.G.

H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE, K.G.

H.S.H. THE DUKE OF TECK, G.C.B.

THE MARQUIS OF RIPON, K.G.

THE DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH, K.G.

THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, K.T., or President of the Geological Society or the time being. THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM AND CHANDOS.

THE MARQUIS OF LANSDOWNE.

THE EARL OF DERBY.

THE EARL OF CARNARVON,

THE EARL GRANVILLE, K.G.

THE EARL RUSSELL, K.G.

THE VISCOUNT PORTMAN.

THE LORD OVERSTONE.

THE RIGHT HON. WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. BENJAMIN DISRAELI, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. ROBERT LOWE, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. H. A. BRUCE, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR STAFFORD H. NORTHCOTE, BART., C.B., M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. HUGH C. E. CHILDERS, M.P.

THE RIGHT HON. CHICHESTER S. FORTESCUE, M.P., or President of the Board of Trade for the time being.

THE RIGHT HON. W. E. FORSTER, M.P., or Vice-President of the Committee of Council on Education for the time being.

THE RIGHT HON. SIR ALEXANDER Y. SPEARMAN, BART.

THE RIGHT HON. A. S. AYRTON, M.P., or First Commissioner of Works for the time being.

SIR ANTHONY DE ROTHSCHILD, Bart.

SIR CHARLES LYELL, BART.

SIR THOMAS BAZLEY, BART., M.P.

SIR RICHARD WALLACE, BART, M.P.

SIR HENRY BARTLE E. FRERE, K.C.B., G.C.S.I.

SIR W. G. ANDERSON, K.C.B.

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR T. M. BIDDULPH, K.C.B.

SIR HENRY THRING, K.C.R.

SIR FRANCIS GRANT, P.R.A.

SIR F. R. SANDFORD, C.B.

THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P.

EDGAR A. BOWRING, Esq., C.B., M.P.

HENRY COLE, Esq., C.B.

THOMAS FAIRBAIRN, Esq.