appearedinthe\"Bijou,\"Scott’s\"BonnieDundee\"inthe\"ChristmasBox,\"andTennyson’s\"St。Agnes’Eve\"inthe\"Keepsake。\"Buttheplateswere,afterall,theleadingattraction。These,preparedforthemostpartunderthesuperintendenceoftheyoungerHeath,andexecutedonthesteelwhichbythistimehadsupplantedtheold\"coppers,\"weresuppliedby,orwere\"after,\"almosteverycontemporaryartistofnote。Stothard,nowgrowingoldandpasthisprime,Turner,Etty,Stanfield,Leslie,Roberts,Danby,Maclise,Lawrence,Cattermole,andnumbersofothers,foundprofitablelabourinthisfashionablefielduntil1856,whenthelastofthe\"Annuals\"
disappeared,drivenfromthemarketbytherapiddevelopmentofwoodengraving。Aboutamillion,itisroughlyestimated,wassquanderedinproducingthem。
Inconnectionwiththe\"Annuals\"mustbementionedtwoillustratedbookswhichwereinallprobabilitysuggestedbythem——the\"Poems\"
and\"Italy\"ofRogers。ThedesignstothesearechieflybyTurnerandStothard,althoughthereareafewbyProutandothers。
Stothard’shavebeenalreadyreferredto;Turner’sarealmostuniversallyheldtobethemostsuccessfulofhismanyvignettes。