AN ELEGANT PRESENT 



FOR THE FAMILIES OF THE NOBILITY AND GENTRY. 



Just published. Jilted up ia an elegant Box, price 3l. S«. 



THE PORTABLE 



DIORAMA; 



CONSISTING OF 



a^omantCc, (S^tantr, anti a^ictutt^iqtte Sbttntm 



With tlie neceiiary Apparatus for producing the various Effects of 



SUNRISE, SUNSET, MOONLIGHT, THE APPEARANCE AND 

 DISAPPEARANCE OF CLOUDS, THE RAINBOW, &c. 



ON THE PRINCIPLE OF THE DIORAMA IN REOENT'S-PARK. 



ACCOMPANIBD AVITH AN ENTIRELY NEW WORK, ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES, 



ENTITLED, 



THE AMATEUR'S ASSISTANT; 



OR, A SERIES OF 



INSTRUCTIONS IN SKETCHING FROM NATURE, THE APPLICATION 



OF PERSPECTIVE, TINTING OF SKETCHES. DRAWING IN 



WATER-COLOURS, TRANSPARENT PAINTING, &e. 



The whole intended as a stimulus to young persons in tlie pursnit of « delightful art, by enabling them to 

 delineate varions scenes for the Diorama, as their taitc may direct; thus furnishing au Inexhaustible source 

 of rational enjoyment, by blending instruction with amusement. 



By JOHN CLARK, 



The Box will form an elegant ornament of the Drawing Room. The following are its dimen- 

 gions: length, 13f in. ; breadth, lOi in. ; deptli, 8 in. 



It ha» frequently fallen upon us (in the merely plain pieces of silk, coloured ciiinson, 

 course of our travel to promote the success yellow, &c., any of which being placed 

 of the Fine Arts), to notice ingenious and behind the first-mentioned views, (and oc- 

 beaiitifnl inventions for their illustration, and casionally combined with a moveable gauze 

 the consequent ditfusion of a taste for their curtain,) impart to them all the changes of 

 enjoyment. Among others, the Myrioramas morning, evening, dawn, sun-set, moon- 

 of Mr. Clark claimed our just panegyrics, light, &c., &c., and gratify the spectator 

 and the Urania's Mirror, published also by with the most picturesque and charming 

 Mr. Leigh, obtained a well deserved cele- changes. Olyects seem to take novel pnsi- 

 brity. But without undervaluing these ad- tions, and the entire scenes have all their 

 inirable designs, we confess that we aie relations varied from tempest to profoinid 

 better pleased with the portable Diorama repose. It is really difficult to imagine, 

 than with any thing of the kind that has without seeing them, how materials, so un- 

 preceded it. In the" form of a fine toy, it is imposing in the form, should be made to con- 

 really a most instructive and delightful pro- vey so nnich gratification to the mind, 

 diiction of art, capable of affording endless A thin volume, entitled the Amateur's As- 

 and refined amusement to all ranks and ages. sistant, is not only a valuable appendage to 

 A neat box contains a series of transparent this invention, but a clever code of instrnc- 

 views, abbey rtiius, sea-pieces, various land- tions (with tinted examples), for sketching 

 scapes, &c., which fit into a light work- from nature, drawing in water-colours, and 

 frame. There are also a number of at- transparent painting. The whole, we are 

 mospheric and other effects produced by certam, will be very popular, as it well 

 having similar transparencies painted in merits to be. — Literary Gazette. 

 clouds, with a rainbow, with a moon, or 



LONDON: Printed for Samuel Leigh, IS, Strand; and Baldwin, Cradock, 



and Joy. Paternoster-row. Sold also by R. Millikin, Dublin ; C. Smith 



and Co., Edinburgh; Carey and Lea, Philadelphia; and all Booksellers. 



