ABSTRACT
The colour generally preferred by English photographers for their productions is stigmatized by eminent foreign critics as cold, unnatural, and monotonous. The particular hues to which one has given the preference may be simply a matter of taste or fancy, yet sufficiently marked to characterise the English school of photography, and, consequently, to become elevated into a national characteristic. In the exhibition referred to the national peculiarities in colour, a very useful lesson might have been learned by those disposed to study it. Not only was an inferiority in colouring observable, but there were other features which perhaps it would not be flattering or pleasing to the vanity of many of artists to particularise. The same mannerism, however, exists in another department of art — in engraving. It is just as easy to recognize an engraving by an English artist amid a crowd of others by foreign artists.
