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this period, are especially noteworthy. Hullmandel made many improvements in the art, especially in the treatment of tint, and the use of white in the high lights. He published twenty-four Views of Italy in 1814, and printed work after Cattermole, Harding, Stanfield, Nash, Roberts, and others.

"Printed in Hullmandel and Walton's Patent Lithotint," appears on some of the work printed by him, as, for instance, Ulm, "drawn from nature and on stone by S. Prout"; "Printed by C. Hullmandel"; and "Published by J. Dickinson, 1826," being inscribed on one print.

R. J. Lane (1800-1872) was a painter who executed some delicate lithographs; there are four studies of a young girl, some six inches by five in area, that are remarkable for their fine feeling and exquisite touch. His work is surprisingly beautiful, and deserves greater recognition.

J. D. Harding (1798-1863) did some fine drawings for the stone. We illustrate a lithograph from a drawing by Harding of Rouen, "lithographed and printed by C. Hullmandel," and published by Charles Tilt, Fleet Street. Other of Harding's work was lithographed by him after the work of other men such as R. P. Bonington, and printed by Hullmandel.

R. P. Bonington (1801-1838), the artist who lived and painted so much in France, and was cut off in his twenty-seventh year, executed lithographs himself. His influence was especially great on French artists, and his marine subjects and landscapes have won him European fame. He drew on the stone