5 MARCH 1836, Page 19

JOHN MARTIN has made a very clever mezzotinter of his

son ALFRED; who has engraved the two last of his father's pictorial imaginings with great !den ty, smoothness, and force. The effect is evidently true to the originals ; for it is like any or all the several variations of MAR- TIN'S 011C idea,—with this difference: "The Last Alan" and " The Destroy ng Angel " have both ruled skies—the artist's last new pattern of clouds—the light and dark being displayed in horizontal streaks ; the light is on the horizon in one, and higher above it in the other. We recognize the natural appearance intended, as far as the heavens are concerned at least ; but it is spoiled by mechanical exaggeration, and the absence of corresponding effects on the earth: all is black as midnight.