LANDSERR'S SKETCHES.
Three prints by Mr. J. T. Rya11, after Edwin Landseer, are shown by Mr. Grundy, of Regent Street. One is the first idea of a scene which Landseer afterwards amplified into "The Sanctuary" and "The Chal- lenge": it is here called "Coming Events"; and portrays a stag bellowing at another who is swimming across a broad water to get at the challenger. The animals, the watery expanse, the distant hills, are touched in with Landseer's wonderful power of pencil, force, and truth. The skill with which Mr. Ryall has made line-engraving conform to the freedom of the artist's pencil is scarcely less surprising. "The Huntsman and Hounds" is a pen-and-ink sketch of a huntsman riding to cover-masterly in every touch. By a new process, the artist's tinting is transferred to line- engraving, and the engraving is a fac-simile of the drawing. "Napoleon's Eagle" represents an eagle with downcast head, perched upon a rock in St. Helena; the sun is setting, and shows the shadowy form of the van- quished conqueror as he lay dead. Will the Bonapartist Club create a de- mand for this allegorical little medallion in France?
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