Mr. FAnnirit has lithographed, with admirable neatness and finish, one
of his urchin pictures of fun and mischief, which he entitles " The Foraging Party Surprised." A knot of schoolboys are besieging an orchard ; one is in the act of scaling the fence by climbing up on the back of another, while the activity of the party within is testified by the hat-full of apples and the intentness of the reconnoiterer through the gate. The citadel is alarmed, however ; and the enemy, in the shape of an ireful dame armed with a stick, is sallying forth to take the as- sailants in the rear. The angry cry of the boy on the ground is capi- tally expressed in his face, and the sly rogue peeping through the key- hole is equal to Weals-reit or MULREADY in intensity and natural character. The lout who holds the spoil, and is grinning at the one who has tumbled down, is a thorougkrustic. The boy in retreat is in too artificial an attitude, though the action of running is otherwise well expressed : the posture of the one whose back is the stepping-stone of the adventurous escalader is scarcely steady enough to support the weight upon him. But, despite these minor defects, and the more inn- portant objection that the place is too public for such depredations to be committed with the chance of impunity, the print has great merit as an elaborate piece of drollery. A three-quarter portrait of Lord Ttignmouth, seated in his library, by GEORGE RICHMOND, reflects the full free of the original as in a glass. It is an admirable work of art, excepting the foreshortening of the thighs, which is very defective. The engraving, a mezzotint by Lurrox is beautifully wrought, with elaboration and delicacy and forcible pic- torial effect.
A portrait by a German artist, of Dr. Thrfeland, the celebrated Ger- man physician, and a Professor of Medicine at the University of Ber- lin, who recently died, has been lithographed in the tinted manner by Gaucr. Hufeland has a noble forehead, and a face full of vigour and sagacity.
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