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the greateft adyantage. Nay, among modern paint- 
ers, Domenichini was the firft who gave to the pic- 
tures of babes, that grace, andthofe delicate touches, 
which Nature has lavifhed on them. He feized 
that true likenefs which his predecelTors could not 
attain. 
It is in their fixth or feventh year that children 
exhibit a fine but unfinilhed (ketch of MAN ; and 
as it is only then that they begin to grow handfome, 
people who are nice upon this point agree in opi- 
nion, that they ought not to. (it for their piHures at 
an earlier pejiod, according to the cuftom of former 
times. 
At that early age, a living beauty ferved as a 
model for Cupid’s much admired ftatue atThefpia, 
equal to the Venus of Medicis ; and a comely lafs, 
not younger, fat for a pi£lure of the Goddefs of 
Love, drawn by Hannibal Carracci, and reprefent- 
ing Danae, while Jupiter defcends in a cloud with 
a (hower of gold. 
While boys and girls are growing, their ftature 
increafes gracefully, more in height than breadth, or 
bulk. The limbs are Aim, the mufcles are difen- 
tangled, the whole human frame by degrees dif- 
covers the fair mould wherein it was turned without 
ablen:i(h. When the full natural (ize is attained, 
a comely cbmplexion receives frelh embellilhments 
from a cheerful mind, good living, and a conftant 
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