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An Establishment of this kind has long been wanted, and is deserving of extensive patronage." Having secured Catalogues, they proceeded immediately to the gratifying scene.{1} The disposition and arrangement 1 The major part of the 405 subjects and sets of subjects, consisting of about 800 prints, are of moderate size, or small engravings for descriptive or literary publications, &e.
They are the lesser diamonds in a valuable collection of jewellery, where there are but few that are not of lucid excellence, and worthy of glistening in the diadem of Apollo, or the cestus of Venus.
So indeed they have, for here are many subjects from ancient and modern poetry, and other literature, and from portraits of beautiful women. Among the first class, the exquisitely finishing graver of Mr.Warren gives us many after the designs of Messrs. Westall, Wilkie, Smirke, Cooke, Uwins, and Corbould; as do the lucid gravers of Messrs.
Englehart and Rhodes, the nicely executing hands of Messrs.
Mitan, Romney, Finden, Robinson, &c.
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