The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 19, No. 540, March 31, 1832 by Various
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195. _Edinburgh Castle from the Grass Market_. D. Roberts. A fine picture of the associated sublimities of nature and art. 208. _The Ettrick Shepherd in his Forest Plaid_. J.W. Gordon. Correct in likeness, but strangely shadowed. 224. _Coronation of William IV_. The first picture of a series to represent the procession to the Abbey on the day of the Coronation of his present Majesty, containing the portraits of distinguished personages who attended on that occasion.--Painted for his Majesty, by R.B. Davis. This picture occupies comparatively as much length on the walls as its description would in our columns: it is some yards long, and perhaps four feet in height. It is but hastily painted. The framework is excellent, and well appointed for St. James's, Windsor, or Buckingham Palace. We hope the _picture_ will be liked there as well as the frame. 244. _Elizabeth relieving the Exile_, by Miss A. Beaumont, is an interesting picture, from the well-remembered incident in the _Exiles of Siberia._ 296. _Interior of a Gaming-house_. H. Pidding. We take this to represent one of the _salons_ of Frescati's, or other Parisian gaming-house, where females are admitted to participate in the game, and witness the madness and folly of the stronger sex. The party are chiefly about a _rouge et noir_ table, and are in the highest stage of recklessness. One of them, a female, has flung herself from the lure across a chair, apparently in the last stage of wretchedness and despair. The excitement of the players is powerfully wrought up and contrasted with the _sang froid_ of the _croupier_, who seems to treat all the world as a ball. Other persons are |
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