GALLERY.

No. 1.

LANDSCAPE-SUN-SET.

Cozens.

Low walks the sun, and broadens by degrees
Just o'er the verge of day. The shifting clouds
Assembled gay, a richly gorgeous train,

In all their pomp attend his setting throne.
Air, earth, and ocean, smile immense. And now,
As if his weary chariot sought the bowers
Of Amphitrite, and her tending nymphs,
(So Grecian fable sung) he dips his orb;
Now half-immersed: and now a golden curve
Gives one bright glance, then total disappears.

Judges xi.

Ver. 30.

No. 2.

JEPHTHA'S RASH VOW.

Opie.

JEPHTHA Vowed a vow unto the Lord, and said, If thou wilt without fail deliver the children of Ainmon into mine hands,

31.

34.

35.

36.

39.

‹ Then it shall be, that whoso cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace, shall surely be the Lord's, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering."

And behold his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

And it came to pass, that when he saw her he rent his clothes, and said, 'Alas, my daughter, thou hast brought me very low, for I have opened my mouth unto the Lord, and I cannot go back.'

And she said, 'My father, if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, &c.

And it came to pass at the end of two months, that he did unto her according to his vow.

No. 3.

POMERANIAN DOG.

D. Catton.

-STRONG dogs that match in fight

The boldest brute, around their masters wait,
A faithful guard. No haunt unsearch'd, they drive
From every covert, and from every den,

The lurking savages.

No. 4.

COTTAGE GIRL.

Russel.

No. 5.

FOX TEARING A COCK.

Moist nutriment.

No. 6.

OYSTERS.

Moses Haughton.

-In their pearly shells at ease, attend

No. 7.

SEA-PIECE-BRISK GALE.
J. Ruysdale.

BUT see! in confluence borne before the blast,
Clouds roll'd on clouds, the dusky noon o'ercast;
The black'ning ocean curls; the winds arise
And the dark scud in swift succession flies.
While the swoln canvas bends the masts on high,
Low in the waves the leeward cannons lie.

No. 8

LANDSCAPE.
Cozens.

No. 9.

FOX ALARMED, STEALING FROM

SHELTER.
Original.

-FROM his kennel sneaks

The conscious villain. See! he skulks along,
Sleek at the shepherd's cost, and plump with meals

No. 11.

HEAD OF ST. PETER.

Guido.

No. 12.

GRAPES.

Jackson.

-UMBRAGEOUS grots and caves

Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant.

No. 13.

ON A GOLDFINCH STARVED TO DEATH IN A CAGE. Russel.

TIME was when I was free as air,
The thistle's downy seed my fare
My drink the morning dew;

I perch'd at will on ev'ry spray,
My form genteel, my plumage gay,
My strains for ever new.

But gaudy plumage, sprightly strain,
And form genteel, were all in vain,
And of a transient date;

For caught and cag'd, and starv'd to death,
In dying sighs my little breath

Soon pass'd the wiry grate.

Thanks, gentle maid, for all my woes,
And thanks for this effectual close
And cure of ev'ry ill!

More cruelty could none express;
And I, if you had shewn me less,
Had been your pris'ner still.

No. 14.

THE GLEANER.

Westall.

Ar length, o'ergrown with tangled brush-wood round,
A shady bank the little wanderer found;

Here her faint limbs she rests; high o'er her head
Its rich embowering boughs an oak out-spread;
The bloom grows fainter on her lovely cheeks;
Yet her mild look a patient reverence speaks:
One trembling hand grasps half her grainy prize,
(Half drop'd beneath her feet, forsaken lies;)
One folds her mantle o'er her shivering form,
While her blue eye up-turn'd surveys the storm.
pours around, the driven clouds and rain,

It

In one dim hue, conjoin skies, trees, and plain.
Oft the rude blast assails her features fair,
Tossing with cruel rage her golden hair;
Rain-drops and hail in drifts successive beat,
Cold, keen, and pointed, on her unshod feet;
Sedate she sits, she fears, but not despairs,
Her tender breast a magic corslet wears;
There innocence has fix'd her hallowed seat,
And taught the heart with holy hope to beat,