1 MARCH 1890, Page 24

We have received from the Autotype Company a reproduction in

autogravure of Mr. Herbert J. Draper's fresco of Spring. This fresco has been executed, on commission from the Royal Academy, in the Nurses' Refectory at Guy's Hospital. The original we have not seen—it will be visible to the public between certain hours in the afternoon after March 22nd—but the design is full of beauty of form and happy combinations. The reproduction has been skilfully managed. We have had but few successes in fresco-painting hitherto in this country. This, we may hope, will be one of them. Certainly it was a happy and generous thought in the Council of the Academy to choose this place for it.