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Pity. Painted by H. le Jenne. Engraved by Henry Lemon.—This

is the Art Union engraving for 1867, and a very pretty plate it is. It repre- sents three girls trying to coax to them a poor little bird, which is starving in the snow. The painter would have done well not to choose the same face for two of the girls, and to reduce the younger one from the older, as the Art Union reduces its gifts of sculpture from the originals.