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CHAPTER XVI
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Mr.Neale's Vieios, many of Mr.Scott's and Mr.Milton's fine Animal Prints; exquisitely engraved Architecture by Mr.Le Keaux, Mr.
Lowry, Mr.G.Cooke, &c.

Among the large Prints are the two last of Mr.Holloway's noble set from Raffaelle's Cartoons; the Battle of Leipzig, finely executed by Mr.Scott, and containing Portraits of those monstrous assailers of Italy and of the common rights of mankind, the Emperors of Austria and Russia; Jaques from Shakspeare, by Mr.Middiman, Reynolds' Infant Hercules by Mr.Ward, The Bard, by J.
Bromley, jun.

possessing the energy of the original by the late President Mr.West, and The Poacher detected, by Mr.
Lupton, from Mr.Kidd's beautiful picture.
~234~~of the plates, and the company dispersed in various parts of the rooms, were the first objects of attention, and the whole appearance was truly pleasing.

At one end was to be seen an old Connoisseur examining a most beautiful engraving from an excellent drawing by Clennell{1}---another contemplating the brilliance of Goodall in his beautiful print of the Fountains of Neptune in the Gardens of Versailles.

Dash all, who generally took care to see all before him, animate and inanimate, was occasionally 1 Luke Clennell--This unfortunate artist, a native of Morpeth, in Northumberland, and known to the world as an eminent engraver on wood, as well as a painter of no ordinary talent, has furnished one of those cases of human distress and misery which calls for the sympathy and aid of every friend to forlorn genius.


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