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REVIEWS OF PRINTS AND ILLUSTRATED WORKS. 



" Shy lock atidJessica y* From G. S. Newton, by G. T. Doo. Hodgson, Boys 

 and Graves, Pall Mall. 



The incident is taken from the 5th scene of the 2nd act — Shylock delivering his 

 keys and his admonitions to Jessica : the expression of the rapacious usurer, is inimit- 

 ably pourtrayed, its jealous doubt and anxiety, deep earnestness, and the fox-like and 

 searching keenness of his glance, are finely opposed to the assumed calmness and 

 listening attention of the fair Hebrew — ^in heart a christian. The print is brilliantly 

 engraved ; there is a clearness, richness, and masterly firmness in the stroke which 

 leaves nothing to be wished for by the eye. 



" The Sentry Box." From C. R. Leslie, by M. J. Hanforth. 



" My Uncle Toby " is, here, represented innocently and incautiously exposing 

 himself to the battery of the fair widow's glances, as, with unconcealed earnestness, 

 he is examining the pupil of the eye which she submits to his inspection with an 

 archness of character that would have undeceived any less simple-minded individual. 

 The person and features of the blooming conspirator are graceful and agreeable ; her 

 dress is modish, and her tournure that of a woman who attaches a sufficient degree 

 of importance to the duties of the toilette, and the suggestions of the looking-glass. 

 " My Uncle" is a burly veteran ; cordial, unaffected, and open-hearted ; frankness 

 and simplicity are tlie characteristics of his honest and kindly countenance ; and 

 while he intently peers into the bewitching eye of the widow, we cannot repress a 

 smile at his utter unconsciousness of the siege which the blithe dame is so admirably 

 manoeuvring to carry. The map of that spot which was the scene of his ambition 

 and glory, " his thought by day, his dream by night," hangs up in " the sentry-box," 

 and is for a while forgotten, that the offending particle may be sought and removed 

 from the pupil of the Widow Wadman's eye. The design is imbued with the finer 

 humour of Sterne, and appears to have been struck off in one of Leslie's happiest 

 moods. The engraver has rendered ample justice to the original, and has succeeded 

 in producing a very splendid specimen of his art 



'* Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and Her Royal Highness the 

 Princess Victoria." G. Hayter, M. R. A. S. L. 



Fine likenesses of the heiress presumptive, and her royal parent ; the resemblance 

 to the Brunswick family is much more favorably developed in this head of the 

 princess than in Westall's, or, indeed, in any other which we have seen. That it is 

 minutely accurate, the name of George Hayter would alone be adequate guarantee. 

 The portraits are engraved in the chalk manner, and slightly tinted. We perceive 

 that Mr. Hayter is unusually precise in affixing his address to the print ; as there 

 are two or three artists of his name and family, it is probably requisite, to preclude 

 mistake. 



« High Life" and " Low Life." From Edwin Landseer, by J. R. Lane, A. R. A. 

 Ackermann, 96, Strand. » 



The two humourous and clever cabinet designs, by Landseer, which were some 

 time since exhibited at the British Gallery, in Pall Mall, have been beautifully 

 lithographed by that accomplished artist Lane. " High Life" represents a favoured 

 and gallant hound sitting in a richly-furnished apartment, garnished with divers 

 aristocratical insignia, and having an air of indisputable luxury : the helmet, the 

 sword, the drinking cup, the cuirass, and a multitude of characteristic et-cetera, in- 

 dicate the residence of some high-born cavalier — some chivalrous soldier, spirited, 

 elegant, and accomplished — fitted to shine in the courtly revel, or to lead in tlie 

 " tented field." " Low Life ;" here the butcher's dog, white, full-fed, plethoric. 



