OBSERVATIONS ON SCULPTURE. 481 
tons, and Button-holes, are all in the way of dig- 
nity. Yet some matter-of-fact people may be 
found, who are best pleased with this literal 
resemblance—people who are not troubled with 
imagination, nor look for mental or historic cha- 
racter in the likeness of a distinguished person. 
These are the folks who admire the Pig-tail of 
George the Third, accurately sculptured in the 
Equestrian Statue of that Monarch in Trafalgar 
Square, and who, whenever they meet with the 
Academic Robe, quarrel with it, because it con- 
ceals the every-day coat and breeches of the man 
“they well remember.” 
After having thus briefly noticed some of the 
best Statues of the most celebrated of our Eng- 
lish Sculptors, it will be found somewhat difficult 
by the contemplation of them, to arrive at any 
fixed, universal Standard of Taste. There is 
this difference between the ancient Statues and 
the modern ones. ‘The former convey their own 
lessons to the mind, and are in themselves an 
authority in forming a perfect judgment, and a 
standard for every thing that is beautiful and cor- 
rect in taste. Whoever looked upon the Apollo, 
the Antinous, or the Diana, and did not concede 
all artificial dogmas of criticism, as in the pre- 
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