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winter at his heliacal rising, emblema- 
tical of Christ, who effaces the sins of 
the world. The Chinese have also the 
Yellow River, the Red Water, and the 
Water of the Lamb, according to Lord 
Macartney. 
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For the Monthly Magazine. 
SKETCHES of remarkable OBJECTS in 
VIENNA, by M. PEZZL. 
STATUE OF JOSEPH II. 
T Tength Vienna is about to have a 
secular statue in the handsomest of 
its smaller squares, after the larger have 
been for two centuries occupied by sacred 
groups, the intention of which was. un- 
doubtedly good, but which are incontes- 
tibly better adapted to churches than to 
public places, 
The emperor Francis IT. is erecting a 
monument worthy of hisillustrious uncle. 
It will stand in the square which already 
bears his revered name. ‘This work has 
been several years in preparation, and 
such progress has been made, that in 
about two more it will be completed. 
The base for this monument has been 
placed in the centre of Joseph’s Square. 
Three steps lead to the pedestal itself, 
which, as well as the steps, is of grey gra- 
nite, 80 hard that the sparks fly at every 
stroke of the chisel, and so finely polished 
that you may see your face in it. This 
stone is brought from a quarry close to 
the Danube, near Matthausen, in Upper 
Austria. The pedestal is an oblong 
square. On this is placed the equestrian 
statue of Joseph IT. in a Roman costume, 
crowned with a laurel wreath, holding the 
bridle of the horse with his left hand, 
while the right is extended before him in 
the attitude of command. The whole is 
about thirty-six feet high from the ground ; 
the horse and the statue about eigh- 
teen; bothare of fine bronze. The sta- 
tue was cast in the year 1801, and the 
horse in 1808; both are without a flaw or 
blemish, and the statue bears a striking 
resemblance to the original. Latin in- 
scriptions are to be engraven on the front 
and back of the pedestal. 
will be decorated with basso relievos, like- 
wise of bronze, the figures of which will 
be rather larger than life. They repre- 
seat by means of emblematical groups 
the two greatest blessings conferred by 
Joseph on his states: the promotion of 
Agriculture and of Commerce. 
At the four corners of the granite steps 
will be placed four columns, each of which 
Pezzil’s Sketches of Vienna in 1805. 
The two sides ° 
[Nov. lt, 
will exhibit four representations in re- 
lievo of the medals struck during the 
reign of Joseph II. in commemoration of 
the most remarkable events of his time, 
and which will consequently present a 
chronological epitome of that period, 
JOSEPH’S SQUARE. 
If Joseph’s square were not deficient 
in regularity, it would be the finest in Vi- 
enna; but the street that crosses it, inter- 
sects it obliquely from east to west, and 
the east side is about thirty feet shorter 
than the west, a disproportion which it 
is now impossible to remedy. 
I figure in my imagination the statue of 
Joseph II. as already erected in this 
square. I approach it, and pay the will- 
ing tribute of grateful veneration to the 
monarch who performed so many good 
and great things for his people. At the 
same time I forget not the artist, whose 
natural genius alone enabled him to cre- 
ateso sublimeamonument. As formerly 
the celebrated Duval, while tending his 
sheep, became an astronomer and natural 
philosopher, so Zauner, while tending his 
father’s goats on a solitary mountain of 
Tyrol, became, from internal impulse, a 
statuary. With a wretched pocket-knife 
he carved the first wooden doll. From 
this doll, to the marble monument of Le- 
opold IT. and now to the colossal statue in 
bronze of Joseph IT. what an immense 
space has been traversed by this enter- 
prizing child of art! 
Those who are acquainted with the 
history of similar- monuments in France, 
England, Russia, and other countries; 
who know that the united study and 
the united labour of many men have there 
co-operated in the production of such a 
performance; must certainly be asto- 
nished that, in this instance, a single art- 
ist, who had previously worked almost 
entirely in marble, should alone have de- 
signed and executed every part, from the 
first sketch on ‘a sheet of paper, to the 
casting of the metallic colossus, and its 
erection in the public square. This artist 
is Joseph Zauner, professor of sculpture 
at the academy of arts in Vienna, anda 
native of Tyrol. 
DECREASE OF SOCIABILITY. 
The period when the mhabitants of 
Vienna we most sociably disposed, was 
indisputably that from 1781 to 1787. 
The tone of society was then cheerful, 
open, sincere, and unaffected. It was a 
cheap time—a time of profound peace, 
when money was plentiful. Every one— 
sought to precure pleasures and enjoys 
ments, 
