X.A,FF.S. Fa:LB' -cualisr.'s
In this print the divine infant reclines, beariag the symbolic cross, at the edge of a lonely-looking tract-of ground, beyond whichare indications 'of background-country, dim in.the gloom. The expression is of that innocent benignity which distinguishes Raffaelle'a treatments of the sub- ject. his is its one and only character ; everything except the Christ being kept so subordinate and free from detail asto lead us to infer, in the absence of any reminiscence of the original, that the figure may have been singled out from a more extensive composition. The engraving is in Mr. Doo's best style, which harmonizes naturally with such a method of treatment ; broad even to the neglect of texture, firm in line, and learned in all the -mysteries of hatching. These qualities produce an effect of great rotuidness-and pdlpiness in the flesh; -with a bias towards generali- zation in form, quite in accordance with that manner of Baffaelle to Which the -work belongs.
The Infant Christ, by Baffaelle. Engraved by D. T. 'Doo. Published by Moon.
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