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

I will add, that every endeavour fo fo direct therri
deferves fuccefs, and efpecially, I hope, Sir, your en-
deavours receive it.

I am, &c.

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EXPLANATION

o F t H E

FIGURE of PEA C E.

Peace is reprefented here, under the figure of a
young woman in handfome attire, fitting, and holding
in her hand an olive-branch, with berries on it: at a
diftance the implements of war confirming on the altar
of Peace.

This fubject fcarce needs any further explanation.
The olive being one of the nobleft productions of the
earth, and which cannot come to maturity, if molefted
by the infults and horrors of war, is with evident pro-
priety introduced with a figure of Peace. Not the
victorious laurel, or the triumphant palm, but the fat,
the fruitful olive.

Peace feems to be rather a paffive, than an a£live
quality: we have therefore placed her in a quiet and
fedentary attitude; not as fhe often is inlroduced, her-
felf employed in burning the deftroying fword, or the
bloody fpear.

We have fome thoughts of prefenting allegorical
fubjects of the Friends, and the Foes of the arts ;
if this fuite mould be given, Peace will appear among
the moff. honourable encouragers of fcience, and War
among its moff bitter enemies.