the new-york exhibition illustrated

"We give an engraving in outline of The DancingGirl Reposing, by W. C. Marshall, A. R. A. the sta-tue was executed in marble for the Art-Union of London,reproduced in statuary porcelain, and issued as prizes to

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their subscribers. The figure is well modelled, and theattitude and drapery indicate very completely the ideaof repose. .

The First Whisper of Love is another characteiis 1

work. The young girl who bends her head coyly, buthot unwillingly, to hear what Cupid has to say, evidentlydoes not know what manner of guest it is she entertains, orsee the arrow which he holds ready to pierce her unsus-pecting breast

It is seldom that we meet with fine workmanshipand beauty of design united so harmoniously as in the

Clock Case, contributed by Mr. Tuomas Sharp. London.The design is highly poetical. Time, with his ancient

symbols, sits above and watches the evolutions of morn-ing and night. The former is symbolized by a wingedfigure crowned with flowers, who bears in one hand thetorch of Aurora, and with the rosy fingers of the otherscatters light upon the dewy earth. The figure of night

hears a sleeping infant in her folded arms. Beneath isperched tho cock, whose clarion

With lively din,

Scatters the rear of darkness thin.

Opposite is the solemn bird equally consecrated to nightand to Minerva.

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The Upright Piano, engraved here, is exhibited by William Stodaut & Son, London.27