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several good things, particularly a fine collection of 

 coins chiefly Koman, inter alia a Niger. He is son 

 of Melander, the late Archbishop of Upsal. The 

 Academy has produced a set of young artists of great 

 merit in drawing and modelling. The terms are very 

 reasonable. 



The first artist here is Mr Sergei, a statuary/"" He 

 was some time at Borne, and was obliged to leave it 

 owing to the jealousy of the artists, and to one (sup- 

 posed to be Canova) of whom only he was inferior. 

 His last work, not yet finished, is the bronze statue of 

 Gustavus III., which the citizens of Stockholm have 

 caused to be made, and it is to be placed upon the 

 quay, before the palace, on a pedestal of Swedish por- 

 phyry. This is a most superb statue, 14 feet high, 

 weighing 30 tons with, and 24 without, the knobs. 

 The attitude is that of the Apollo Belvidere. His 

 left hand is leaning on a rudder, round the top of 

 which is a laurel wreath. In his right is an olive- 

 branch, rather too small. He is supposed to be re- 

 turning from the Finland war with the peace, and 

 stepping from his boat to the palace. We could not 

 help remarking the extreme dissimilarity of the two 

 sides of his face. The left has more slope and less 

 angle than the right, in the cheek ; and the left brow 

 falls away flat and hollow, the skull becoming round 



* Johan Tobias Sergei, born at Stockholm in 1744, died 1814. He 

 endeared himself to his countrymen by declining munificent offers 

 from Catherine of Russia, that he might spend his days and exercise his 

 art among them. The most easily accessible account of him is perhaps 

 that in the * Biographie Universelle.' 



