THE NEW-YORK EXHIBITION ILLUSTRATED.

in the border. The Sideboard Disii, eleo.trotyped from the highest attainment of the art of eleetrotyping as appliedoriginal in the museum of the Louvre, was made for the to the production of works of art. The simultaneous in-

Queen. It contains a series of allegorical representations,divided by arabesques. Temperance presides, in the

centre, over the four elements, represented in the bas-reliefs of the inner ring. The eight subjects of the outer

ring typify as many branches of science and art. Thesesalvers are works of exquisite beauty, and exhibit the

vention of Jacobi at St. Petersburg, and Spencer, atLiverpool, in the year 1838, was adopted by Messrs.

Elkington in 1840, when they took out a patent for theprocess both in England and France. The art has extend-

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ed with wonderful rapidity, and has been brought tosuch perfection, that looking at its results in the works

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exhibited by Messrs. Elkington, it is difficult to see howit can be improved. This firm employ about 500 work-men at Birmingham, executing the designs of some of the

best artists of the day. About 30 other English manufacturers are licensed to use the process. Electrotypy is one of the most valued gilts which science has

conferred upon art, since it brings the most magnificentworks, such as formerly only the wealthiest could obtain,within the reach of all lovers of art.