Six Views of North Wales. Drawn on Stone by G.
CHILDS, P. GAUCI, and G. PICKERING.
Grand scenery has as much to complain of as great men ; for notoriety attracts the incapable among artists, as well as the ignorant among ad- mirers. A Mr. G. PICKERING, no doubt a very praiseworthy practi- tioner of the pencil in the provinces has deliberately and with malice aforethought sat himself down to make an attempt at portraying scenes which a TURNER or a HARDING would contemplate with a sense of their inimitable grandeur.
" Thus fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Mr. PICKERING gives us a sample of his own proper method of per- petrating landscapes, in a view of Caernarvon, ingeniously made up of dots with the pencil ; but he has in some degree screened his incompe. tasty by availing himself of the somewhat foggy medium of the litho- graphs/ of Messrs. CHILDS and P. Gaucr. It is hardly fair, however,. to-blame those artists for the tame, monotonous, ineffective drawings bearing their names. Of the number, Menai Bridge and Conway Castle are the best; Pont Aberglasslyn is elaborate, but heavy ; Snow- don, with Llanberris Lakes is feeble ; Harlech Castle hard ; and all are unsatisfactory.
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