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Daughter of Sir Brooke Boothby. She was six 
years of age, and the sculptor has imagined her 
on her couch asleep, in all her beauty and inno- 
cence. ‘Simplicity and elegance,” says Dr. 
Mavor, “appear in the workmanship—tenderness 
and innocence in the image. On a marble 
pedestal and slab, like a low table, is a mattress, 
with the child lying on it, both in white marble. 
Her cheek, expressive of suffering mildness, 
reclines on the pillow, and her little fevered hands 
gently rest on each other, near her head. The 
delicate naked feet are carelessly folded over each 
other ; and the whole appearance is as if she had 
just turned in the tossings of her illness, to seek 
a cooler or an easier place of rest.” The Monu- 
ment is very affecting, and awakens maternal 
feelings deeply. This simple Monument has 
done more to spread Banks’s fame through the 
island, than all his classic compositions. 
The liberties which Sculptors sometimes take 
with their subjects, may be exemplified in the 
works of NoLirkEns, who was the contemporary 
and rival of Banks. Nollikens made a very fine 
bust of Dr. Samuel Johnson, who wore a wig, 
and was quite bald; but the Artist disliked the 
wig, and clothed the head with hair, under the 
