NEW PRINTS.
JOHN LEWIS'S clever and characteristic picture of " Highland 'Hospitality" has been engraved in mezzotint, with fidelity and spirit, by GILLER. The subject is agreeable, and it is pleasantly and natu- rally treated. A couple of sportsmen, whose fashionable version of the Highland costume, as well as their look and air, proclaims them to be amateurs, are resting in a shieling, and partaking of Highland hospitality in the shape of a glass of " mountain-dew." The old wife is a capital study; and the idle Icok and attitude of the boy, and the sly askance look of the girl at her wheel, are characteristic. The men are portraits : the host, with the bottle in his hand, is CATTERMOLE ; one guest lighting his cigar with an ember from the fire, is EVANS, also a water- colour painter ; and the other, who seems to be pronouncing upon the merits of the whisky, is the artist himself. The easy attitudes and good drawing of these two figures are admirable ; and their appearance forms a striking contrast to that of the inmates. The dogs, and all the accessories, are also well drawn and grouped. The scene is wild and strange enough to be picturesque, and yet familiar enough to enable us to recognize its truth.
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