lint arts.
Messrs. Graves are preparing to popularize, by engraving, Sir Edwin Landseer's favourite picture of the Maid and the Magpie. Our readers may remember that charming illustration of peasant courtship, where the hesitating Jean Jacques leans bashfully against the shed under which Pauline (it may be), attended by the Magpie, is milking the quiet eon• tented cow amid a group of farm yard favourites. The sum of 1000/. is paid for the copyright ; no lack of patronage behind such a premium as this. Messrs. Jennings have on view, at their gallery in Cheapside, Sir George Hayter's careful picture of Latimer preaching at St. Paul's Cross. The costume and portraiture are commendable ; the heads of John Fox, J. Russell, first Earl of Bedford, the Bishop himself, are clever impersonations, and the picture deserves remark, as an interesting record of the religious struggles of those eventful days.
One of Turner's admirable architectural drawings, of the early period of his art, representing the Westminster Abbey Chapel, north of the choir, has been photographed, with success, by Messrs. Caldesi and Montecchi ; the whole detail is as delicate as in the original drawing, and Mr. J. Dillon, for whom the work has been privately executed, may congratulate himself on the acquisition of such choice fac-similies of one of Turner's most marvellous studies.
The untiring Mr. Baxter has certainly made an advance in his last specimen of his invention in printing in oil-colours. The picture is a winter landscape, with:an admirably managed distance of the setting sun : on the left is the village church, intercepted from the hamlet by the road, down which an old faggot woman and two lads dragging a large branch of a tree are slowly going homewards, let us hope. In the foreground is the frozen pond, with trunks of felled trees on the one aide, and the stout: rustic palling adjacent to the cottage on the other : and the whole tone of the picture is clothed in the hue of snow and frost. It is cer- tainly a very meritorious fac-simile.
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