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 Clement's Inn," shows the dainty elegance of the style at its best. The subject is from a drawing by Wheatley, whose rustic figures and masterly picturesqueness do not fall very far short even of Morland himself.

Thomas Sutherland is another engraver in aquatint who is chiefly remarkable for his hunting and sporting subjects after Alken, printed in colour, which fetch high prices. The Peacock Tavern, Islington, an old coaching-house on the Northern Road, is one of his best-known plates. There is a pretty series of aquatints after David Cox, which may be purchased at ridiculously small prices by the collector, many of them at a couple of shillings apiece. Twilight,—Warwick Castle (13-1/2 in. by 9 in.); Morning,—Eton College; Noon,—Llanilted Vale, North Wales; Sheepshearing,—Surrey; Storm,—Coast of Hastings; Hazy Morning and Mid-day (two on one plate), Mid-day,—Scene in a Hayfield (9-1/4 in. by 7 in.)—all engraved in aquatint by Reeve. The following four, Moonlight, a view on the Thames near Chertsey (11-1/2 in. by 7-1/2 in.), and A Calm,—Hastings Fishing Boats (11 in. by 7-1/2 in.), by Reeve, both coloured by hand, and Mid-day,—The Cornfield (10-3/4 in. by 7-1/2 in.), an aquatint by Havell, also coloured by hand, are worth a good deal more than the six or seven shillings usually asked for them.

In regard to the use of aquatint, Turner eschewed its appearance in his Liber in lieu of the stronger mezzotint. In Dunstanborough Castle, drawn and etched by him, he wrote on the first proof submitted to him by the engraver, Charles Turner, who used