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REVIEWS OF PRINTS AND ILLUSTRATED WORKS. 



** Wolsey receiving the CardinaVs Hat in Westminster Ahhey ;** in mezzotinto ; 

 engraved by William Giller, from the original picture by G. H. Haiiow. Hodgson, 

 Boys, and Graves, Pall Mall. 



This subject was peculiarly favourable to the developement of Harlow's genius, 

 and the picture he has produced is a splendid memorial of his powers. The venera- 

 ble and imposing figure of the chief ecclesiastics, the majestic presence of Wolsey, 

 the inspired countenances of the Bishop of Exeter and the Dean of St. Paul's, their 

 gorgeous mitres, flowing beards and ample robes, contrast finely with the gallant and 

 stately forms of the Dukes of Suffolk and Norfolk, their martial heads, jewelled caps, 

 courtly array, and proud chivalrous bearing ; and the impression is completed by the 

 fair youthfiil heads, bright looks, and undimmed expression of the attendant boys. 

 The head of Howard of Norfolk is superb ; the Sforza of Titian steals upon the 

 mind in looking at it ; it is of kindred stamp. The scene is laid before the high 

 altar, and the accessories, the crucifix, the massy candlesticks, huge tapers, &c. &c., 

 serve as rich subordinates to the composition. A fine breadth of sun-light falls in 

 upon the principal personages, and while it lights up the figures of the new Cardinal, 

 the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Dean of Exeter, glancing over the features 

 of those more retired, it serves as a balance to the commanding masses of shade. 

 The print, finely engraved, is admirably calculated for framing, and would form a 

 noble appendage to an apartment. 



"Fairy Mob ^ from H. Fuseli, R. A., by W. Raddon. Ackermann, Strand; 

 Hodgson, Boys, and Graves, Pall Mall. 



Drawn with great purity, and very exquisitely engi-aved with a sharp, clear, deli- 

 cate line; the face and hands are beautifully made out; the tenderness of the flesh, 

 and the supernatural light of countenance — that unearthliness of tone which is in the 

 original picture, most skilfully sustained. Mr. Raddon has fully entered into the 

 spirit of the painter, in a subject of extreme difficulty of management, and has at the 

 same time displayed a genuine feeling of the real excellence of his art. There are 

 no forced oppositions of black and white, nor is there any ostentatious parade of 

 tooling, frequently mis-termed *' brilliant ;" all is fine repose, yet without the slight- 

 est approach to tameness or insipidity. 



" Hide and Seek ;" painted and engraved by James Stewart. Hodgson, Boys, 

 and Graves. 



A cluster of happy little rogues, boys as well as girls enjoying the old game in 

 most gleesome spirit ; a slender village child cautiously entering the cottage door, is 

 about to commence her search, while her partners in the romp bustle under beds, 

 chairs, &c. &c., to elude her observation. Pleasingly imagined and executed in 

 Stewart's admirable style. 



" A Musical Bore ;" from E. W. Buss, by Robert Graves. Hodgson, Boys, and 

 Graves. 



Buss has a rich vein of the humourous in his composition, strongly developed, but 

 never falling into caricature. The very beautiful engraving before us represents one 

 of his clever and amusing designs. A fat, bald-headed enthusiast, with his soul in 

 his eyes, at half-past two in the morning rouses the distracted household by his 

 *' fierce and furious" flourishing upon his favourite instrument ; " deaf as Ailsa 

 Craig" to the agonized remonstrances of his landlord, and utterly regardless of the 

 apparition of his fair hostess with a chamber candlestick in one hand and a screaming 

 infant in the other, he continues the war of sounds. The portrait of Handel look- 



