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New Music and Drama. 



the brawny pulp of slautfhteimen, his 

 femahis hiUocks of n)sy flesh, in ovei- 

 whelmoil uiuscles, f;rotesque attitudes, 

 aiul (listorted joints, are swept alons? in 

 a ^'iilph of colours ; as herbage, trees 

 and shnibs are wliirled, tossetl and ab- 

 sorbeil by inundation." 



The British Museum having lately 

 been enriched with tiie Head of the fa- 

 mous Colossal Statue of JNleinnon, from 

 Thebes, we jm-sent a coi rect sketch of 

 it, and in our next Number, propose to 

 introduce some detailed observations 

 upon it. 



British Institution. — The exhi- 

 bition of the works of eminent living 

 artists annually displayed in these 

 rooms, ma\' be expected to open to the 

 public in a few days. They were re- 

 ceived for examination on Rlonday, the 

 1.5th of January, and were being ar- 

 ranged when this article went to press. 



Among the principal works to be ex- 

 hibited will be an ancient city by moon- 

 light, and some beautiful Welsh 

 scenery, by Mr. Hofland. A boa-con- 

 strictor entwining itself in combat with 

 a lion, by Edwin Landseer. Some 

 wood scenes, by Starke. Tiie annual 



[Feb. J, 



Dutch fair at Yarmouth, and some 

 coast scenery, by Vincent. A mill, by 

 Wilson. Alexander taming Buceplia- 

 lus, by Ilayler. A comic subject, by 

 Newton. Londoners gi})'<ying, by Leslie. 

 A classical landscape from Virgil, and 

 some finished sketches by Linton. An 

 old woman at needle-work, and the. 

 broken window, by Sharp; and many 

 others of various degrees of merit in the 

 various classes of art. 

 ylnnnimccment of Iforkx in hand, S^c, 



Mr. NoRTHCOTE is painting an his- 

 torical subject from Shakespeare's King 

 John, for the ensuing exhibition at So- 

 merset House. 



Mr. Haughton has some fine minia- 

 tures on a large scale in hand for tiie 

 same exhibition. 



Mr. Haydon is proceeding fast with 

 his new pictures of Christ's agony in 

 the garden, and tiie raising of Lazarus. 

 The latter will be 19 feet by 14. 



Mr. LoNsnALE has painted the Count 

 Vasali, Alderman Wood, and other -diii- 

 tinguisiied characters among her Ma- 

 jesty's friends. 



Sir Thos. Lawrence has some fine 

 whole lengtlis in preparation for Somei-- 

 set House, and since his elevation to 

 the presidential chair, has paid great 

 attention to the interests of the Aca- 

 demy. Sir Thomas is a man of a fine 

 taste"; he must be aware of the defects 

 of the institution over which he is ap- 

 pointed to preside, and sliouhl exert all 

 liis influence to remove them. 



C A nova's recent statue of Eudymiou 

 is said by competent judges to be supe- 

 rior in style to any of his foimer works. 

 There is eveiy reason to suppose, not 

 only from the manifest improvement in 

 taste, but from this great sculptor's 

 own acknowledgment, that this im- 

 provement may be dateil from Iiis visit 

 to the Elgin marbles. 



Messrs. Lane, Kirkup, Eastlake, 

 GoLDlCUTT, and other Englisli students 

 in Rome, are pursuing their art with 

 avidity, and we may expect some speci- 

 mens of their progress in England (^re 

 long. J- E. 



NEW MUSIC AND THE DRAMA. 



" George the Fourth," a Grand March, 

 Composed with Variations /or the Piano 

 Forte, by J. Monro. 2s. 



THIS march is bold and spirited in 

 its style, and not wholly without 

 novelty of idea. Though without being ^^^ pleasingly fancied 

 copied from, it reminds us of Cramei 's 



martial movement in Eflat; it is ra- ' 

 ther by the motion than the course of 

 some of its notes, and we would be far 

 from detracting from the originality it 

 possesses. Tiie variations are analogous 



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