Messrs. Chatfield, Robertson and Lance, HAYDON'S pupils, have been dissecting and studying hard, and have made some fine drawings.

JACKSON will have a fine head of Canova in the exhibition.

SCULPTURE.-A statue, habited in full robes, of the late Right Rev. and venerable Bishop Skinner, Primate of the Scots' Episcopal Church, is just finished by the Professor of Sculpture in the Royal Academy, and about to be sent to its place of destination, the spacious new Gothic chapel, (dedicated to St. Andrew,) in Aberdeen. The figure, judiciously chosen, has a bible put into the hands, and is in the act of delivering a text from the Proverbs of Solomon, "Buy wisdom, and sell it not."

EDINBURGH, JAN. 3.-WATERLOO TROPHIES.-We are glad to find that some trophies of the battle of Waterloo are collecting, to be placed in the national monument when erected. Sir John Sinclair having visited the place where the battle was fought soon after it took place, procured some of them, which he has presented to the Provost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, to be preserved by them until the monument is erected. He delivered on that occasion a speech, which was listened to with interest. The trophies, consisting of several cuirassés, found on the field of Waterloo after the battle, and some of which Sir John Sinclair was fortunate enough to procure himself upon the spot, were then delivered to the Lord Provost and Magistrates, to be preserved in their custody until the national monument is completed.

None of the portraits painted by LAWRENCE at the courts of Europe, for the King, are to be exhibited at the Royal Academy, which will be a great disappointment.

"A very lively writer, in Baldwin's London Magazine, says, 'It is bad taste and bad judgment to assert that Edwin Landseer is equal to Snyders :' with deference to him, it is neither bad taste nor bad judgment, but very sound taste, and very solid judgment; for Edwin in the head of the dog which is licking the poor traveller, is superior to Snyders in expression and equal to him in painting: Snyders never painted any thing finer in all his life, nor any other animal painter that ever lived. He then proceeds to say, that' when he (Edwin) is, there will be an end to all progression of improvement.' Really this shews neither solid taste nor any judgment:- so, he takes Snyders as perfection, and considers he can never be surpassed! thus limiting a man's capacity to the previous efforts of one individual with the endless beauties of Nature before him, which are a constant stimulus and constantly unrivalled.”—(From a Correspondent.) CHANTREY is executing busts of Sir Walter Scott and the Duke of Wellington.

HAYDON's next large picture will be the Raising of Lazarus, 19 feet by 14; he has begun the sketch. He will paint previously another picture, for Mr. Phillips, of Christ's Agony in the Garden, about 10 feet by 6. We have heard from one, upon whose judgment we can rely, that CANOVA, in his last statue of Endymion, is amazingly improved in style and taste. We may reasonably date this improvement from his visit to the Elgin marbles.

WILKIE is about to begin his picture for the Duke of Wellington. The subject is, Old Chelsea Pensioners listening to an Hussar reading a gazette of one of the Duke's battles. He has finished his picture for the King of Bavaria; which, we think, will make a noise in the exhibition.

CALCOTT is to paint a picture for Mr. Phillips, who is now become one of the most liberal patrons of British

art.

HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD has nearly completed the arrangement of his splendid collection of sculptures at Woburn Abbey: among recent additions are two fine basso rilievos by Thorwaldson; one representing Priam begging the dead body of his son Hector from Achilles; and the other, its companion, is also taken from the Iliad; the celebrated group of the Graces, by Canova, and some choice specimens by Flaxman, Chantrey, Nollekens, Westmacott, and other English artists. An account of them shall appear in a subsequent number.

Among the recent improvements in the mechanism of the arts, Messrs. Smith and Warner have invented some pencils for sketching in oil, similar to those formerly described for sketching in water colours, and of equal utility.

Several new discoveries have lately been made at Pompeii, and great hopes are entertained that several more ancient reliques will shortly be brought to light. Among other things, a very fine statue of a priestess has lately been dug out of the ruins.

Illustrations of the novels and tales by the author of Waverley are preparing for immediate publication; to be engraved by Mr. Charles Heath, from original drawings by Mr. Westall, the Royal Academician.

The present theatre in the Haymarket is to be pulled down after the ensuing season, in consequence of the arrangements made for improving that part of the metropolis. The plans of the new theatre, which is to be opposite Charles Street, in the Haymarket, are by Mr.

Nash, and are in a forward state of preparation. The building will be completed for the season of 1821. The new theatre will be small, light and convenient, such as it ought to be to enable the audience to see and hear with facility and comfort, and the actor to "act well his part," without overstraining his voice or caricaturing his features.

Extract from a letter, dated Rome, March 18, 1820.

Several distinguished travellers in the Levant are now at Rome. In the number are Mr. Forbin, who is again on a tour to visit the Barbary States, and Messrs. Banks and Barry, two English travellers, who have returned from Abyssinia, Upper Egypt and Syria. Mr. Banks found, among other valuable remains, a remarkable inscription on the ancient town hall of a city in Asia, of the time of the latter Roman emperors. This inscription contains a kind of tariff, or maximum, of the prices of all the necessaries of life, and other articles in the Roman empire, from the prices of corn and oil to the hire of a horse for one day; the fee of a barber, and the drink money for the inspector of curiosities of the place.

Mr. GARE, the Prussian architect, who accompanied Baron Sack to the Levant, has arrived at Genoa, on his

return, and is now under quarantine.

We understand, that an exhibition of several fine portraits of various public characters of the Continent, painted by Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE, will be opened for public inspection.

Mr. C. LANDSEER has begun his first picture.

THOMPSON will have an historical picture in the exhibition, of Raising the Widow's Son.

ART. XXII. NEW PRINTS.

The Poacher Detected, engraved by LUPTON, after a Picture by WILLIAM KIDD, now in the possession of JOHN SLATER, Esq.

THE original from which this picture was engraved, excited considerable notice in one of the late exhibitions, and is a creditable specimen of the style and school of Wilkie. The engraver has performed his task with fidelity and much beauty of tint; it forms an excellent print for the morning room of a country gentleman, and will hang well with his guns and shot belt.

Portrait of Thomas Moore, Esq. engraved by JOHN BURNET, from a Picture by MARTIN ARCHER SHEE, Esq. R. A.

One of the finest characteristics of Mr. Burnet's engravings, is a faithful imitation of the touch, manner and style of the picture before him, so as to exhibit the master through his lines; hence we conceive him to be the most picturesque engraver of the day, and relish all his prints, particularly those from his able countryman Wilkie, as a second sort of originals, rather than as translations. He has infused the soul of his art into this fine print, and has rendered Mr. Shee's original, in an original This painter never had a work from his pencil so well engraved before.

manner.

The Dead Soldier, engraved by J. HEATH, A. R. A., after a Picture by J. WRIGHT, of Derby, now in the possession of JOHN LEIGH PHILIPS, Esq.

This print, which has been some years known to the connoisseurs, is one of Heath's finest works, and is here mentioned, because of its republication with the following new work, as a companion which it has long required.