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REVIEWS 6F prints AND ILLUSTRATED WORKS. 



*' Htr Royal Highness the Princess Victoria ;" from R. Westall, R. A,, by Ed. 

 Finden. Hodgson," Boys, and Graves, Pall Mall. 



An exceediufi^ly beautiful line engraving from the well-known picture by Westall, 

 exhibited at the Royal Academy some three or four years since. As a highly- 

 finished whole length portrait of one, in all probability, destined to sway the sceptre 

 of Britain, it cannot be otherwise than most acceptable to the public, and a safe 

 speculation on the part of the publishers. We are glad to observe that the stiff 

 strange little black dog in the picture has been omitted in the print. 



'* The Child tvith Flowers, portrait of Louisa Georgina Augusta Anne 

 Murray ;" from Sir Thomas Lawrence, by George T. Doo. F. G. Moon, Thread- 

 needle Street, Hodgson, Boys, and Graves, 



This is indeed a superb specimen of the graver, and a noble addition to our 

 modern works of art. The expression of her little ladyship is in Lawrence's least 

 agreeable style — it is too searching, too speculative, too pointedly brilliant for that 

 sweet simplicity of childhood which is never obliterated without fatally compromising 

 the truth and loveliness of the character : ingenuousness ought to be the predomi- 

 nant sentiment. 



" The Gentle Student ;" from G. S. Newton, R. A., by S. Sangster. Hodgson, 

 Boys, and Graves, Pall Mall. 



A very fine line engraving, but not one of Newton's happiest inventions : the 

 head and figure present the idea of a pyramid ; the countenance is too puerile, and 

 we suspect that the left arm is wanting in purity of outline. Mr. Sangster has, 

 however, produced a very brilliant print. 



" The Brute of a [Jasband-" from H. Richter, by W. Nicholas. Mezzotinto. 

 F. G. Moon, Threadneedle Street. 



Mr. Richter is an artist of great merit ; his water-colour drawings have long 

 excited attention and admiration ; the " Tight Shoe ;" " Village School in an Up- 

 roar ;" and others of a similar class, have acquired him a reputation wlrich we fear must 

 be ultimately injured by his latter occasional selection of subject. The present is 

 particularly unfortunate ; an incident founded upon brutality to a woman can only 

 create a strong sense of disgust : even in classical story we shudder in spite of the 

 mastery of art ; Polyxena perishing by steel, or Dirce fastened to the horns of the 

 bull, inspires us with unwelcome sensations ; what then must be the impression pro- 

 duced by a circumstance of aggravated ruffianism represented in the barbarous 

 grossness of low life, without any effort to tone the repulsiveness of its character ? 

 The cobbler's wife shewing to the magistrate the marks of her husband's blows on 

 her bosom is not only a shocking but an indecorous idea, arid we cannot refi-ain from 

 expressing our regret that so clever an artist, and so amiable a man as Mr. Richter, 

 should lessen the pleasure which we have usually derived from his works by a choice 

 of subject utterly repugnant to good taste and good feeling. We sincerely trust that 

 he will return to that charming train of invention in which he has been so eminent-, 

 ly successful ; if he does not we shall recommend Mrs. Richter to take him in hand, 



*' Engravings from the Works of the late Henry Liverseegey Part IX. 

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



An attractive series of prints from the designs of Liverseege. " Don Quixote in 

 his Study," by J. E. Coombs ; « The Cavalier," by J. C. Bromley ; and " Edie 

 Ochiltree," by G. R. Ward, form the contents of the ninth part. Liverseege dis- 

 played abilities of no ordinary class ; his conceptions were poetic and original, but 

 unfortunately he has left little more than sketches behind him — of grace and beauty, 

 and truth, and occasionally of sublimity, without doubt, but after all leading us, from 

 tlieir rapidity and slightness, to regret that so gifted an artist did not bestow more 

 time upon his pictures, and shine out in some finished performance of his pencil. 

 We remember a small painting of his, exhibited at Somerset House three or four 

 seasons back, in which the supernatural was, perhaps, more thrillingly revealed than 



