NEW ENGRAVINGS.
SIR THOMAS LAWRENCE'S beautiful picture of the Two Children, which was formerly exhibited at Somerset House, is just published as an engraving, under the name of " Nature." The engraving has all the strong points of the picture in it, and will go far in establishing Mr. Doo's fame as an artist. The fine tone of the picture is sweetly and yet powerfully delineated ; and the expression of the sentiment has met with a just conception on the part of the engraver. 'Were it other- wise, all the power of the art would not have sufficed to supply the omission, for the ruling charm of the whole picture lies in this : the resemblance between the two girls, which so closely identifies them with each other, and at the same time the guardianship of the juvenile elder over the recklessness of earliest infancy, form a contrast, to have lost one atom of which would have been akin to sacrilege. The coun- tenances of both the children are replete with joyousness, but of what different character! The younger is glad for mere gladness-sake, bask- ing in the sunshine of a world that as yet has had nothing " wreathed smiles " to give it ; but the gladness of the elder is rather reflective than innate : she gazes on the laughing eye of her tiny sister, and gives back the sparkling light derived from that look ; her cheek approaches that of the innocent, and like a bridesmaid at the wedding- feast, is decked in the same livery as that to which she has come to lend grace. We know not which to love best—Minima, or her guar- dian : if the former, it is because she has lent so much of her light- someness of soul to the latter, and thus, as it were, multiplied herself : if the latter, it is because she gives back' so graciously the favours she has borrowed, not as a mere copy or repetition of the same, bait. adding fresh sweets to those she has so loving,lypnrloined.g. • FARIER'S picture of "The Village Toilet–has lieeriprettily engraved by ROMNEY, ancl' is now making a figure in thelnint-shop windows. The engraving is nicely touched, and finished with an ease which was highly requisite to make the subject pass currently. We say this because we do not think that the story is one of the happiest which Mr. FARIER has chosen for the exercise of his talent : it wants matter to give it interest ; and the punctual gentleman with his watch in his hand, as seen in the distance through the door of flue chamber, scarcely affords sufficient by- play to make up fur the deficiency with respect to the principal groupe. With the exception of the spareness of the story, the painting is not only pleasantly imagined; but as pleasantly
laid out : the old lady's earnestness in doing the thing as it ought to be done—" in doing it as we used to do it in our young days "—is full of character; and Chloe's last look at herself in the glass will prove as amusing to the spectator as it appears to be satisfactory to herself.
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