46 REVIEWS OP PRINTS AND ILLUSTRATED WORKS. 



ing with horror at tlie murderer of science, adds to the comic impression of the inci- 

 dent. An extremely desirable print for the porte-feuille, and a fine specimen of the 

 modern British School of engraving. 



" Studies from Nature ;" by J. Inskipp, engraved by C. E. Wagstaff. Charles 

 Tilt, Fleet Street. Plates 1 and 2. 



Two very charming heads from this original and deservedly admired artist. No. 

 1 represents a feir-browed girl with a large broad-brimmed hat tied under her chin ; 

 the face is seen in three-quarter, the eyes turned upon the spectator ; a delicious air 

 of sensibiUty and sweetness is diffused over the countenance. No. 2, a dark-eyed 

 chubby little rustic, hat on head, leaning on a gate, the face in a front view. 

 Beautiful gleanings from Nature, without a single particle of affectation, or the false 

 picturesque to mar their effect. The plates deserve our highest encomium ; they are 

 inimitably engraved in the chalk manner, by C. E. Wagstaff. 



" Engraving's from the Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds ," by S. W. Reynolds. 

 Part VIII. Hodgson, Boys, and Graves, Pall Mall. (Monthly.) 



We hail the successful prosecution of this work with pleasure ; to the admirers of 

 the President, and the friends of the British School, it is an interesting and valuable 

 offering. The subjects in the present number are, the Countess of Carlisle, (very 

 fine ;) Mrs. Abington, (ditto ;) Master John Crewe, as Henry VIII. ; Sir Joseph 

 Banks, (fine) ; and the group containing the portraits of Earl de Grey, the Earl of 

 Ripon, and the Hon. Philip Robinson. 



" Illustrations of the Bible ," Bull and Churton, Holies Street. Part IV, 



This number is equal to its predecessors ; the subjects are of great interest. Mar- 

 tin's splendid scenery, his magnificent piles of architecture, his majestic wildernesses, 

 and stupendous precipices, with the wild flight of his genius in the supernatural, and 

 Westall's practical facility in delineating the human form, his taste and skill in 

 composition, and accuracy in depicting the passions and emotions, produce a happy 

 union of the requisites for a graphic illustration of " Holy writ." The engravers 

 exhibit a laudable spirit of emulation, and nothing is neglected to render this series 

 of miniature wood cuts worthy of patronage. 



*' Ttsher's National Portrait Gallery." (New edition.) Parts I. to XIIL 

 (Imperial 8vo.) 



A national work conceived in a truly national spirit, and every way deserving of 

 the popularity it has acquired. Three portraits (in some numbers four) elaborately 

 executed from authentic originals, and accompanied by well-written memoirs, are 

 here offered at the singularly low charge of two shillings and sixpence, or two thirds 

 less than the price of Lodge's " Illustrious characters." The majority are finely 

 engraved, and stamped with their legitimate value — accuracy of resemblance ; some 

 of the heads are admirable specimens of calcography. The autograph of the indivi- 

 dual is appended to each, and the trio — the head, the hand-writing, and the history, 

 aid in composing a " gallery" which must be matter of proud contemplation to every 

 subject of Britain. Their Majesties' portraits are highly wrought, and genuine like- 

 nesses ; the Princess Victoria, in her ninth year, is a charming little gem — sweet 

 and placid, with an air of meditation natural and unobtrusive. Lord Eldon, firmly 

 engraved by H. Robinson, from Sir Thomas Lawrence's picture ; Sir R. Abercrom- 

 by, from Hoppner, by Cook ; Hannah More, from Pickersgill, by Finden ; Lord 

 Lynedoch, by Meyer, from Sir Thomas; Earl Grey, by Cochrane, from ditto ; and 

 a very capital head of Sir David Brewster, by W. Holl, from Raeburn, of Edin- 

 burgh, may be mentioned as the principal. Cochrane is an artist who has risen 

 into just celebrity; he has produced so many beautiful proofs of his ability that we 

 may be pardoned suggesting that in an anxiety to secure delicacy of finish, he is 

 occasionally apt to impair the general impressiveness of his effect. Were his 

 stippling a little bolder, as in Thomson's exquisite productions, and some others, his 

 prints would be still more acceptable to the connoisseur. The spirit too frequentlj 

 evaporates in the process of mechanical elaboration. We do not offer these remarks 

 ujpon an individual artist, in depreciation of a valuable work submitted to our 



