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the Lion liberated by the Mouse, now in the Cabinet of THOMAS FRANKLIN, Esq. Srdly, That 

 the study in oil of a dead Lion, in the collection of G. WATSON TAYLOR, Esq. also believed to be 

 from the hand of SNYDERS, bears internal evidence of being- painted, not only from Nature, but 

 from the very same individual Lion, with the above. They are all portraits of the same 

 animal. It appears as if SNYDERS, having- obtained possession of a dead Lion, after making- the 

 study now belonging- to MR. TAYLOR, had put him in this rampant attitude, and painted from 

 him as long as he lasted. But perhaps RUBENS and SNYDERS did this in concert : for on the 

 other hand may be recollected a masterly sketch in oil of the heads only of these rampant Lions, 

 which was exhibited at the British Gallery two seasons ag-o, bearing the name of RUBENS. If 

 this name was written by RUBENS himself, the probability is as above stated, that both artists 

 painted at the same time from the same model. On this point we do but sum up such evidence as 

 is before us, leaving the verdict to the reader. 



We believe that this subject also, has passed through the medium of an Etching by BLOTE- 

 LING, for it differs in some minor respects from the picture in the gallery of SIR JOHN SEBRIGHT. 

 It however affords further illustration of the theory of expression laid down by MR. BELL, while 

 it embodies the Scriptural idea of a " ramping and roaring- Lion seeking whom he may devour." 



We have mentioned above, our having been disposed, on a certain occasion of visiting a 

 public menagerie, to pat and stroke a Royal Tiger as he lay in his den with his nose toward the 

 spectator, and whose looks, though certainly far from angelic, we could almost have called 

 amiable : yet this is very far from being the character of the Tiger. To stroke, or pat, or touch 

 them in any way, however, no person should ever venture, except their keepers ; even the tame 

 Tigers, that are sometimes brought up almost without animal food by the mendicant priests of 

 Hindostan, are strictly prohibited from being touched " under the utmost rigours of religious 

 anathema," says COL. WILLIAMSON, who relates a circumstance of his having visited a Faukeer 

 who kept a Tiger of this kind in the wilds of Colgong. 



