...Penington. 16 "The object of the Association, quaintly and vigorously expressed in the language of the day, was: "To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts,...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honourable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting...

...articles of agreement in reference to the promotion of art. The purpose of the Academy was said to be "to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honourable premiums, and otherwise assisting the studies and exciting...

...consciousness of the limited conditions of the start, a conviction of the harvest of the future." They proposed "to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the United States of America by introducing current and elegant copies from works of the first masters in Sculpture and Painting and by thus facilitating...

...transformed the Columbianum into the Pennsylvania Academy. The purpose, as expressed in the petition for incorporation, was " to promote the cultivation of...facilitating the access to such Standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting...

...Academy of the Fine Arts, copying had actually been advocated. The association met in Independence Hall "to promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...by thus facilitating the access to such Standards." Edward's ultimate disdain for straight copying is shown by his improvisation, to say nothing of this...

...1805 states, as part of its educational objectives, "To promote the cultivation of the fine arts in America by introducing correct and elegant copies...Sculpture and Painting and by thus facilitating the access of such Standards."78 "First Masters" were admittedly still in short supply, but the copies Mauro had...

...the 1805 ereation of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (fig. 2.12l, which had lofty goals: To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts, in the United States of America, hy introducing correct and elegant copies from works of the first masters in Seulpture and Painting,...

...Edward Penington. The object of the organization, as quaintly expressed in the language of the day, was: "To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts,...facilitating the access to such Standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting...

...Declaration of Independence was signed. The educational objects of the academy •were thus defined: "To promote the cultivation of the fine arts in the...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honourable premiums, and otherwise assisting the studies and exciting...

...objects of the association as stated in the petition for incorporation, dated December 26, 1805, were: "To promote the cultivation of the Fine Arts in the...facilitating the access to such standards, and also by occasionally conferring moderate but honorable premiums, and otherwise assisting the Studies and exciting...