PANORAMA OF GRANADA.
The approaching Easter holydays will not surprise Mr. Burford unpre- pared or inactive. His Panorama Royal opened yesterday to private view with a picture of Granada, of the more than extensive dimensions required to fill the large room of the exhibition. The view is one excel- lently adapted for artistic purposes ; the eye ranging over a vast expanse, rising from plain country into undulating slopes, and bounded on all sides by an amphitheatre of mountains—the Sierra de Elvira, the Al- puxarras, the Sierra Alhama, and, overlooking all, the Sierra Nevada, its snowy peaks azure-tinted in the fair daylight. Orange-groves, olive- plantations, cypresses, and a few palms, vary the scenery, now gentle but never tame, now rocky and broken ; and Granada lies sheltered in the valley, with its convents, cathedral, churches, palaces, and monumental Alhambra. The last does not form an object of such unrivalled conspicu- ousness as might be presupposed; nor does its exterior, as here seen, convey any distinct intimation of the gorgeous prodigality and delicacy of its internal decoration. The picture has been well and carefully painted by Mr. Burford, aided by Mr. Selous, from drawings taken by Mr. J. Uwins with the assistance of Lady Louisa Tenison. The aspect is that of quiet sunlight, not more vivid or peculiar than is frequent in England ; and the whole has a pleasing effect of marked but not extreme diversity, harmonized by generally subdued colour, and combined into unity by its mountain girdle.
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