Note 61 — Chapter X · APPLICATION OF THE STEREOSCOPE TO PAINTING.

In a landscape by Mr. Waller Paton, called the “Highland Stream,” now in the Edinburgh Exhibition, the foreground consists principally of a bed of water-worn stones, on the margin of a pool at the bottom of a waterfall. The stones are so exquisitely painted, that nature only could have furnished the originals. We may examine them at a few inches’ distance, and recognise forms and structures with which we have been long familiar. A water-ousel, peculiar to Scottish brooks and rivers, perched upon one of them, looks as anxiously around as if a schoolboy were about to avail himself of the missiles at his feet.