The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

FINE ARTS.

We have just been favoured with a sight of
some specimens of a new experiment in en-
graving, which is entitled the "Chronographic
Process," and consists in printing on one piece
of paper, or any suitable material, a succession
of impressions from steel or copper-plates, giving
fac-similes of drawings in chalk or colour, and
offering them at a cheaper price, and of superior
quality to any other modes of engraving now in,
use. The artist's method of proceeding is by ar-
ranging the light and shade of the drawing on
one plate, and the colours on the other (some-
times from two to four plates may be requisite),
which, when charged with the proper tints, are
passed successively through the copper-plate
press, and the work is completed. The imita-
tions in chalk produced by this process are of
first-rate excellence, and we have now lying
before us the portrait of a little boy, apparently
about five years of age, the colouring of
which is managed with such extraordinary
skill and ingenuity, that we defy the •most
experienced connoisseur to distinguish it
from the real chalk tint. A picture of a race-
horse with a jockey, in full professional trim,
mounted on his back exhibits nut less merit.
The colours lightly thrown in, in the first plate,
are carefully finished off iu the second; and on
comparing it with some of the cleverest litho.
graphic racing sketches lately produced in
Paris, we find that its effects are much more
striking, the shades deeper, the lights brighter
—as in the case of the horse's eye, which is full
of brilliant animation—and the impression
cleaner, more distinct, and with more of decided
character about it. A view of the Interior of a
Cathedral is equally remarkable, fbr the neat-
ness and general felicity of the execution. This,
also, has been perfected in two plates, the first
of which gives the bare outline of the view, and
the second shows it in its complete state. The
various groupes in this engraving display infinite
ease and grace; and the imitation of lithograph
is as close as it is possible to be. From the in-
genuity" Crthhroat triitoigsrlaipkheliyc
and eleganceloNe
f7t.ithueu
uwsee autinidoen :
Process" of engraving
ere lonn• to come into very general
artists. °The gentleman to whom we are indebted
is Mr. Henry Griffiths who,
for it,
stand, has taken out a patent for it.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Duke of Cambridge visited her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester on 'Thursday morn-
ing at Gloucester House, previous to his Royal High.
ness leaving town. -
Mr. Colquhoun had an interview with the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer in Downing-street yesterday.
The Turkish Ambassador transacted business at
the Foreign-office on Thursday.
Sir Henry Macleod had an interview with Lord
Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office.
Lord Lowther, Postmaster-General, and Colonel
Maberly, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in
Downing-street.
Mr. Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an inter-
view yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
The Earl and Countess of Ripon left their resi-
dence at Putney on Thursday, for Leamington.
The Earl of Aberdeen had an interview with Sir R.
Peel yesterday.