The Sun.
London, England, 1816-04-01 00:00:00

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LECTURES ON SCULPTURE. .
Mr. frdoptpt concluded his course on Mon-
day, evening. last, with an admirable lecture on
composition and the arts of design.
. Having surveyed the origin and progress of
'sculpture in Greece and this Conntry..and having
_considered the relations which, the art's of design
bejr to several branches of knowledge, and the
illostratiotor—theyafford to thetn,. Ole PrOfessor
proceeded 'to the principal effort in sculpture.—
c.omposition. - On' this head, he referred the
students to the admirable discotirse delivered by
the Professor of Paniting in Opts. Academy, as
painting and sculpture .differ chiefly with respect
to, colour, .the same pruiciples _must, .for
Most part, regulate. both with
.respect to com!•
position.'
The composition 04. the earliest Greeks was em-
ployed' in .repyesenting their religious mysteries,
liSieintirWS of the gods, combats, &c, instances of
the latter Are-Oe Battle of IFheseus and the Mina.
tanr„Nessits'attempting' to carry away Dejenira,
Ste.... After the power, of ,‘sta' :.was.recitreed by the.
Greeks, beauty and troth were particularly starnpt
upon the performances Of the latter, The. Pro-
lessorkere produced drawings of two speell4eo.4
of bas-relievo, which are at prssent-in-the British
Musetinv lie also.exliihitecl other perfartuaneeti,
the prittrifid of which was, . the .oestruckinu. of
Niotudstltililreo, witirli, trptu its .41141y,it5..11.0
to Lar.e,been copied from a similar. one
ou Ote•twe
.14 titc„tqatne of Juvitu.
After the , Grecians eettoe,kl tae. free,, they
ceased to attempt I:l,ge pieces'of sculpture, their
ingenuity was outlined to, small' works, which
were. equally as Itt :toilful as the large ()ties, iii
proportioW to their size; 'the' Pestroctiou of
'Priam's. family, is au admirable performance, and
the Deiftlr'of I.leileager is a. superior example of
,111 e principal works .of llotne were evidently
,•oreeuted by Greek artists, for those.by Roman
ones,..,4vere.universelly rep,reseptatitml,ot cruelty.
and„barba, ity ; the, w
exercise of these vices by t.llo'
poison Soldirl 8, NMI) aperecl ,
re.
.generally the salkut.
.
The s:,cred thute, which inspired the,,Preek
ritdi ',flamed atter the establishineot
the,,,clitistian religion ; sevelil wonderful pr 9•
ductiutts were brought forth by Chiistian artists,
particollily the hirth of Adam and Eve, the na.
tivity, the transhguratioo,
,glorification, the re.
Sarre-T(4M, anal 1116. ascension, .
,
i''LAXM,VN here remarked the ab,solute ne-
veessity for expression io all works of sculpture.
Expression, (said he) is the very soul of Com-
positiou, a,V,Rry ioferior,performatieeMay.be ad-,
vartced. above, mediocrity. by expreslion, but 'en
accurate one without it, Kill be. joitly clrspiscul
Tkle,Protessor then offered sonic reniarks upon
,the projection and recession of bas-relieros, and
'observed,
.rhat jo some antient performances of
this description, that upon almost a flat sorAce,
horses were tirade to appear advancing one.bebitol
the other, 'without the. least confusion..
after tivtielling upon the three
'classes of scUipture rind painting—(the sublime,
~which cohfluied to" assemblages of figures; the
:heroic, pritiCipally practised in the description of
battles, &c. ; and the beautiful and graceful, in
illustration of which lie produced numerous beau-
tifui
speci ) proceeded to discourse upon the.
art,.as.More immediately relative to 'artists of the
prisent time, whirse Performances are in' a great
measure ildhicnted by their religions persuasion,
and .he then concluded by some Judicious advice
'to students, and a summary vie 47 of 'the con-
'tent's of his former lectures. At the conclusion
he, Was received 'With great and justly merited
'applause;

An extraordinary instance of the sagacity of a
Fi dog •trecuti.eil A bhOrt time since.,,,Mr. T. Ru
,Th 1011,01113 of Long Frantlington, was, overcome
'in a snow-storm pear Alitwick, and fell. In this
:state he
.was exposed to all the horrors of the
night, till Seven o'clock in the morning.. His
faithful dog, at !Iris
.timc, ohlerving,, a. shepherd
at a small distance, used every exertion to tat roct
his, atteptioir,.such as lurtyling, goinx from and
rettirOit/g to the spot where,, his tnastt:r lay. "this
tlic,shephtrd tol,dlrm• the d!sg's motiims.
Mr. Rutherford r, as found (Ilicti.icovvred wit,h
Snow), omit:A to a neighbouring ,
and aft •r five hours exertion, life MIS restored,
and lie is now quite