LANDSBER'S WATERLOO.
Waterloo week-if there is such a thing during the French alliance- has been appropriately marked by the issue of tickets to view, at Messrs. Jennings's establishment in Cheapside, the large picture by Landseer of "A Dialogue at Waterloo," which was exhibited at the Academy in 1850, and which will continue visible in its present quarters till about the middle of next month. The picture, it will be remembered, portrays the victorious Duke, in his honoured old age, visiting, with the Mar- chioness of Douro, the crowning field of his manhood's fame, and point- ing out to his companion, with most characteristic action, spots which his inward eye sees yet more vividly than the outward organ. A group of Belgian peasants is in the foreground, exhibiting " Guides to Waterloo"; others importune the groom in the background, who has to put on all his stolidity to outface them. It is a work of which a renewed inspection in 1855 will be found fully to confirm the admiration which it evoked in 1850: and we are glad to be reminded that it belongs to the nation, having been one of the commissions from Mr. Vernon pending at the time of his decease, and comprised in his munificent gift. For some time past, it has been under the hands of Mr. Atkinson for engraving. The first proofs of his work have now been delivered, with a result highly creditable to his reproductive skill ; and the prints are to be on sale within some couple of months.
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