THE COLUMBIAN FOUNTAIN.

CHRIST HEALING THE SICK.
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This painting is now being visited by great
number of the citizens of Washington, during the
day and evening" The lecturers description Of the
great variety ofsPeaking figures are full Of interest
and instruction. A Baltimore contemporary has as
serted no more than our own opinion, in stating -


Inc features and expressions as we'll as the draw
ing are true to nature. Il needs no interpreter to


tell Judas lscarriot. The dark, deep villiany that


prompts him to the betrayal glances from his sssss-


sin like eye. The self satisfied confidence and gene


rosi'y OF Peter the impeuous, is like life itself His


bravery ana devoted love instincvey point him out
70 the spectator and his burning Indignation aroused
by the satanic look ofthe Chief Priest and Scrbes ex


hibits tho man himself The pensiye and thoughtful
countenance of John with his lovely and moral at
tributes are finely developed, John was 4 man Of
warm impulse with steady purpose and habit. The
truthfuness, impartality, and direcedness of Mat
thew, and the unwilling sceptcism Of Thomas are
well represented The deep concern, malignant
hate, fierce purpose, immoveabIe selfpossesson and
towering pride of the High Priest cannot be exce-
ed. The very personifcation of the arch 6end
stands before US, and see flashing from his eyes
living hate and stern obstinacy. The group Of
winch ne IS the head is master work The sick
present objects living reality, each one Develop
ing 'neir particular disease. The emanciated sick
man Dy whose side stoops the wife worn down with
fatigue. The mother with her pad infant pressed
fondy to her bosom The father with 4 fathers
anxiety depicted on his countenance, with his sksle
ton framed maniac writhing into all the contortons
OF feature and form of which tho mind can have .nv
conception. The haggard blind man and awkw,rd
boy. The beautiful blind girl with Just enough
tinge left upon her cheek to tell with what freahres.
it once bloomed The obliterated and palIid hue Of
grle Penced upon the old looking face Of the rick
ETY. boy, and the truly loathsome disease Of the pal
sled lady, anxiously endeavoying to look at Christ
lrresisby tell the spectator Of their rans and su
ferng. The ills of life to which all flesh is heir to.
are as distinctly shown as if the objects were
real Ihe numerous attendants Of the sick, each
deserve separate notice, but we have already ex-
ceeded our limits, yet we cannot dismiss the subject
without referring visitors to. the magnus opus Of
the pencil The portrayal Of Christ, which presents
trace OF the to osloy to the mems divinior aloue
as "nGgria soadturnm which eminently belongs to
the character equally with the attribute of compass
sion and benevolence