The artists repository and drawing magazine: exhibiting the principles of the polite arts in their various branches (4.1790)

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Great, Charles the Firft, Colbert, Leo the Tenth, Fran-
cis the Firft, and the Earl of Arundel; juff. before this
group, on the rocks which feparate Elyzium from the
Infernal Regions, are placed the angelic guards, fee
Milton, book iv. verfe 549 ; and in the moft advanced
part an Archangel, whofe countenance and a£tion bear
evident marks of concern, is weighing what is not feen ;
behind this figure is another Angel, explaining fome-
thing to Pafcal and Bifhop Butler.

Behind Francis the Firft and Lord Arundel, are Hu-
go Grotius, Father Paul, and Pope Adrian.

Near the center towards the top of the picture, fits
Homer, on his right hand Milton, next him Shakef-
peare, Spencer, Chaucer, and Sappho; behind her fits
Alcaeus, who is talking with Offian ; near him are Me-
nander, Moliere, Congreve, Bruma, Confucius, Mango
Capac, Sec, Next Homer on the other fide, is the
Archbifhop of Cambray, with Virgil leaning on his
fhoulder ; near them Taffo, Ariofto, and Dante ; be-
hind Dante, Petrarch, Laura, Giovanni, and Boccacio.
In the fecond range of Figures, over Edward the Black
Prince and Peter the Great, are Swift, Erafmus, and
Cervantes ; near them Pope, Dryden, Addifon, and
Richardfon; behind Dryden and Pope are Sterne,
Gray, Goidfmith, Thompfon, and Fielding ; and near
Richardfon, Inigo Jones, Sir Chriftopher Wren, and
Vandvke ; next Vandyke is Rubens, with his hand on
the fnoulder of Le Suer ; behind hira is Le Brun, next
are Julio Romano, Dominichino, and Annibal Car-
rachi, who are in converfation with Phidias, behind
whom is Giles Huffey. Nicolas Poullin and the Scycio-
nian Maid are near them, with Callimachus, and Pam-

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