ART PUBLICATIONS.
A copious series of designs in water-colours, the produce of Oriental tours undertaken in 1847 and 1848 by Mr. R. Clive, is on view at Messrs. Dickenson's, of New Bond Street ; the most interesting portion of the sketches having been selected for publication in lithography. The tours extended over Syria, the great Arabian Desert, the Nestorian country, Armenia, and adjoining lands; and the publication will com- prise also views taken at Baghdad and Nineveh. Mr. Clive possesses a free and expressive touch, united to strong but quite unexaggerated feeling for colour. The brilliancy and clear expansive air of the views are often remarkable, and would reflect credit not only on an amateur.
Messrs. Dickenson also announce for publication four interior views of the Great Exhibition, by Mr. Nash ; of which we may shortly have occasion to speak further. The artist's name may be accepted as guarantee for the success of an undertaking which from its very nature could scarcely be expected to fail.
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