There is Rogers's "Italy" and "Poems," two volumes, the first editions of which appeared in 1830 and 1834 with fifty-six exquisite vignettes after Turner and Stothard. Among the most delightful of the plates must be mentioned Tivoli, by Pye, St. Maurice and Tornaro by Wallis, and the Lake of Como by Goodall.
Turner's "Annual Tour" in 1833 comprised a set of twenty-one plates of the Loire, and in the two following years his "Annual Tours" consisted of views on the Seine, with forty subjects, including those of Rouen.
From these "Annual Tours," known as the "Rivers of France" series, we reproduce four illustrations to show the variety of subject and the amazing excellence of technique. Rouen Cathedral, engraved by Thomas Higham, is perfect in its detail of architectural beauty, as the reproduction facing p. 222, shows. The other Rouen on the same page is from a small print by Robert Brandard, who engraved a large plate (24 in. by 18 in.) from the picture, Crossing the Brook, and another large plate, The Bay of Baiæ. He was born at Birmingham and was a pupil of Goodall. Like Goodall, he was himself a painter, and one of his water-colours, Rocks at Hastings, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum. He engraved some of the subjects for "England and Wales" series and numerous plates in the "Turner Gallery," published by Messrs. Virtue, and in the Art Journal between 1850-1860 there is to be found much fine work from his graver. From this source we illustrate the Stranded Vessel off Yarmouth, which exhibits
