Although at this productive period of the colour-print William Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” were issued, with their sweetly pictured pages of uniquely printed colour, and their magic simplicity of poetry, every page having “the smell of April” as Swinburne said, it does not appear that they exercised any imaginative influence on the artists who were producing children subjects for the popular prints. Yet certainly poetic sentiment informed the grace and charm which were the characteristics of Thomas Stothard, whose prodigiously industrious and productive pencil dominated in a great measure the book-illustration of the day. Five thousand designs are credited to him, and Blake himself engraved some of these in stipple; but our present concern with Stothard is in such engaging colour-prints as Knight’s _Fifth of November_, _Feeding Chickens_, _The Dunce Disgraced_, _The Scholar Rewarded_, _Coming from School_, and _Buffet the Bear_, _Runaway Love_, _Rosina_, _Flora_, and the popular _Sweet Poll of Plymouth_, Nutter’s _First Bite_, and _Just Breeched_; Strutt’s _Nurs’d at Home_ and _Nurs’d Abroad_, and others of more adult interest too numerous to mention. Another popular favourite with the buyers of colour-prints was the Rev. Matthew. William Peters, the only clergyman who ever wore the dignities of the Royal Academy, though, as a matter of fact, it was only after he had attained full academic honours that he took holy orders. Eventually, after some successful years with portraiture and fancy subjects, he resigned his R.A.’ship; but it must be said that while he was painting for popularity there was a good deal of the “world and the flesh” about his pictures, albeit his was a very winsome view of both, to wit, the seductively pretty _Sylvia_ and _Lydia_, by Dickinson; White’s _Love_ and _The Enraptured Youth_; John Peter Simon’s _Much Ado about Nothing_; Hogg’s _Sophia_, and J. R, Smith’s _The Chanters_. _The Three Holy Children_ in Simon’s print, however, shows Peters more as we may imagine him in the light of a “converted” Royal Academician--converted to be chaplain to George “Florizel,” Prince of Wales.