86 An Attempt to draw . 
think it very possible that the following lines of Dr. Darwin 
may eventually be realized: 
“ Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar 
Drag the slow barge or drive the rapid car ; 
Or on wide waving wings expanded bear 
The flying chariot through the fields of air. 
Fair crews triumphant, leaning from above, 
Shall wave their fluttering kerchiefs as they move ; 
Or warrior bands alarm the gaping crowd, 
And armies shrink beneath the shadowy cloud.” 
I remain, sir, your obedient servant, 
Brompton, near Malton, Yorkshire, GroncE CAYLEY. 
Dec. 24, 1815. 
_ XVII. An Attempt to draw a Parallel between the Arts of 
Painting and Sculpture *. 
Tue appellation of Sister Arts is generally given to Painting and 
Sculpture: this mode of expression taken in a general sense is 
correct ; but the relations and resemblances which they respec- 
tively present to the eyes of a common observer are very remote, 
when they are considered attentively and with the eyes of an 
artist. 
Several eminent artists and amateurs, whom I have the ho- 
“nour to rank among my friends, having expressed their sur- 
prise that very little had been written upon sculpture, while: 
the most petty scribbler thinks himself qualified to decide dog- 
matically on the merit of painters, and to dwell pedantically 
on all the parts of a picture; it occurred to me that the rea- 
sons for such a seeming neglect of the former art, and such an 
excess of criticism on the latter, were to be sought for in the 
essence of the two arts. In these few pages I shall therefore 
endeavour to give a general idea of both. 
Painting strikes the senses most forcibly, and the aid of co- 
lours gives it the advantage of closely resembling nature. Not 
only do the abundance and éclat of its productions diffuse it 
more widely and facilitate its reception in the world; but the 
means of its execution are so familiar and so well ino wats that 
all men regard it as a common property. But it is not in this 
point of view, nor in this spirit, that it is made for all the world. 
Sculpture, more confined to the workshop, less in view and of 
more difficult removal, slower in its operations and less extensive — 
* Translated from an unpublished manuscript of Count Caylus, i in the 
possession of M, Fayolle, member of the French Institutee—Magasin En- 
cyclopéedique, 
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