MR. NASH'S DRAWINGS OF THE INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITION.
The Queen has given a proof of her good taste in selecting Mr. Nash as designer of the interior effects of the Great Exhibition. No artist of the day, perhaps, is equally capable of combining a strict and almost literal local resemblance with elegance and variety in the arrangement of his groups and sparkling freedom and spirit in colour,-a point, in this eras especially, scarcely less important than the design itself. Messrs. Dickinson, of Bond Strset, have received the Queen's permis- sion to publish Mr. Nash's drawings ; the artist himself being engaged to execute them on stone. The size of the plates, which will be rendered in printing in colour and colouring by hand, is about 30 by 21 inches. The first presents a general view from the South-east end, near the tran- sept, where the ceremony of the opening is introduced; and the same in- cident is continued in the scene taken from the East end of the nave. These are followed by views of the transept and of the English depart- ment. The fidelity of representation is very striking. Object by object, all the great features of the Exhibition can be distinctly traced down the line; and the lightness, brilliancy, and crispness of the colouring, are in excellent agreement with the actual effects of the building ; which could not, indeed, have received more truthful or artistic record. The first plate is announced for immediate publication.
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