10 MAY 1851, Page 20

PRINTING IN OIL COLOURS.

Here again we have a reminder of the great feature of the year. Mr. Baxter has applied his process, several specimens of which he contributes to the Great Exhibition, to the rendering of that Exhibition itself. The print is a favourable example, produced with care and delicacy : but the fault of a pinky tone of colour, at once weak and tending to rankness, re- mains. Unless this can be obviated—whether inherent in the process, or dependent on mistaken intention, and therefore capable of removal—the prints in oil-colours will not be satisfying to the artist, or, we should think, altogether pleasing to the general eye.