11 DECEMBER 1830, Page 18

- Sketchnsin Italy, drawn on Stone by W. TArmorir. No. I.

This is not each a -Work as we should have expected from an artist of 'Mr. LIMTON'S reputation. The sketches are certainly clever, but not - -extraordinarily so ; and they have no style whatever, but are hasty and -ratheienieagresdraughts of scenery, whose romantic character makes these inverfect plates so far interesting. Such drawings may be all that an artist would require as recollections of his tour, or rough materials for rmielted pieturess but they are manifestly unfit for publication as a pie- . terial work. We are-surprised to tee them so destitute of feeling ; in which, more than anything elte, consists the value of sketches. We