The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (2.1788)

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ss This, though an obvious remark, is not the
Jeaft frequently infringed 5 whoever has attended to
the eonverfation of fome denominated connoijjeurs
muft be fenfible of this; he cannot but have noticed
the ufe of epithets, which gentlemen fhould by no
means adopt."

The following anecdote, (faid to have happened
at the firff. exhibition in the great room of the So-
ciety for the encouragement of arts, &c.) may ferve
as a fupplement to the fentiments of our correfpondent
Philo.

A connoifleur who had furveyed.the pictures, &c.
with great contempt, turning to a flower-piece, ex-
claimed with vehemence, in the ufual connoiiTeur
Ityle, "vile! wretched.' paltry!" and fo on ; 14 and
that filthy fpot, I fuppofe," fays he, u is meant for a
fly! that dab of dirt! there, that there!" when
raifing his cane to point it out more evidently, the
infect took to his wings for a fpeedy retreat.

EXPLANATION of the PLATES, No. I.

f l A HE Vignette to the Title reprefents a figure
JL of Genius, holding in one hand a laurel wreath
as the reward of excellence, with the other pointing to
a variety of implements ufed in the arts of defign. The
port folio in drawing, the pallet and pencils in painting;
the pillar fignifies architecture, the points, &c. engraving,
and the books, the theory of thefe fciences,

The origin of design refers to Pliny's account of
that event, noticed in the Introductory Lecture.

It