228 FLORAL EMBLEMS. 



PAINTING. 



Au R 1 c u L A . — Primula Auricula . 

 *' Auricula, enrich'd 



With shining meal o'er all their velvet leaves." 



Thompson. 



As all the most beautiful flowers that were 

 known to the ancients, had been placed in 

 the hieroglyphical language of plants, we had 

 some difficulty in making a selection worthy 

 of representing the delightful art of painting, 

 for such it must ever be regarded. 



*' Whether their hand strike out some free design, 

 Where life awakes, and dawns at every Une, 

 Or blend in beauteous tints the colour'd mass. 

 And from the canvass call the mimic face." 



Pope. 



We were unwilling to place any but a 

 European flower on the limner's escutcheon, 

 and have therefore gathered " The queen of 

 the snowy Alps," for their emblem ; for since 



