1802.] | 
give an idea of the ancient Mofaic. The 
figures are exquifitely turned, and highly 
fpirited, and the colouring of the back- 
ground has More of a French than'a Ro- 
man appearance. 
mafterly ftyle, and is altogether a very fine 
{pecimen of art, . 
Plate VII. Fragment of a Mofaic’pave- 
ment. 
* Inthe fecond Number are. comprifed, 
REMAINS OF * TWO TEMPLES AND 
OTHER ROMAN ANTIQUITiES DISCO- 
VERED AT BaTH. 
Plate I. reprefents fragments of the ca- 
pital, and bafeof a column, difcovered in 
the year 1790, in the city of Bath, on 
digging the foundation for the new pump- 
room and baths. 
Plate II. Several fragments of a cor- 
nice, richly ornamented with foliage and 
flowers. 
- Plate III. The capital and entablature 
reftored. 
Plate IV. Fragment of the thaft, archi- 
‘trave, &c. 
Plate V: exhibits the portico of a tem-— 
ple, reftored from the feveral fragments 
above defcribed. The figures which re- 
main, Mr. Lyfons apprehends, clearly in- 
dicate this to have been a Temple of Mi- 
nerva, and conjectures it to have been the 
fame which is mentioned by Solinus, when 
fpeaking of the hot-fprings in this ifland, 
and the magnificent buildings, which had 
been erected for their reception. This 
portico is uncommonly elegant. 
Plate VI, contains figures of feveral 
fragments, difcovered at the fame time, 
and near the fame place. Thefe appear 
to have belonged to another building of 
much f{maller dimenfions than the Temple 
of Minerva. 
PlateVII. Seprefents the fragments re- 
ftored, and they exhibit a temple or cha- 
pel dedicated to Minerva Medica, who 
appears to have been worfhipped at this 
place, under the name of Sul or Sulminer- 
va, of which a word, in an infcription 
which is fubjoined, is evidently a frag- 
ment. This little temple is in a very good 
tafte. 
Plate VIII. Several fragments, one of 
whith reprefents an altar, with two fi- 
gures, one of Jupiter, the other of Her- 
cules. The back-ground of this print, 
and indeed all the others, is admirably 
adapted to give relief tothe fragments. 
Plate IX. reprefents the mutilated re- 
mains of a figure in a niche. 
* Plate X. A votive altar, found on the 
{cite of the pump room. It is dedicated 
tothe Goddefs Sux, for the health and 
Monruiy Maa, No. 94, 
_ Retrofped? of the Fine Arts. 
It is in an elegant and: 
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fafety of Aufidius Maximus, a centu. 
rion of the fixth legion, by Aufidius Lem- 
nus, his freed-man. 
Place XI. ‘reprefents an infcribed ftone, 
found in the ‘year +754,' about’ five feet 
under ground, in digging a cellar at the 
lower end’of Stall-ftreet, and fome other 
curious fradiments. 
Plate XII. reprefents a monumental 
ftone, found in the year 1753, in digging 
a vault m the market place. 
For any farther account of this intereft- 
ing work we have not room, and~ the 
above may enable our readers to form @ 
general rdea of its merit. :In printing, 
drawing, and engraving, itis got up in’a 
way that does great honour to the editor ; 
and she very handfomely acknowledges 
having obtained the affiftance of twa 
young artifts, whofe merits are well-known 
to the public, Mr. Robert Smirke, jun. 
and Mr, William Danicll; by the former 
the archite€tural parts were accurately 
meafured and drawn, and the experienced 
hand of the latter will be eatily recogniled 
in the mafterly engravings. 
The Cottager’s Wife, and the Female Fern 
cutte’, Companion prints ; painted and engrave 
ed by R, Weftall. ‘. 
The ftyle of engraving of thefe prints 
is admirably calculated for Weftall’s man- 
ner of drawing. They are etched partly 
on foft ground, and partly aqua-tinted, and 
the impreflions fo finifhed, that to a ca- 
fual obferver they have all the effect of 
drawings. | The engraver’s great (and, 
-we might almoft fay, only) object {eems to 
be to make a ground-work for the colours 
ing ; and, for attaining that purpole, it is — 
better adapted than any procefs we have 
hitherto feen The ‘prints are exquifitely 
coloured, and the general defign of the 
Cottager’s Wife is extremely engaging 
and beautiful. 
An Old Shepherd in a Storm; R. Weflall, R.A, 
pinxit. R. Medows fculpt. 
Weftall’s defions are, generally fpeak- 
ing, made in fo good a tafte, that we feel 
hurt at being compelled to point out any 
of their errors. When the picture from 
which this print is engraven was exhibited, 
we remember it being remarked, that 
there was too much {pace and vacuity in 
the back-ground, where, when the figures 
are fo large, there surely ought to be tome 
variety of form, fomewhat of miction, 
that the tranfition to the figures may not 
be too abrupt. Where it is left fo naked, 
as in this inftance, it gives the idea of .a 
figure ftanding before a great locking- 
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