The historic gallery of portraits and paintings: and biographical review : containing a brief account of the lives of the moost celebrated men, in every age and country : and graphic imitations of the fines specimens of the arts, ancient and modern : with remarks, critical and explanatory (Band 5) (London: Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe, 1809)

CARTOONS OF RAPHAEL URBIN.
picture; which, being folded as under his arm, breaks
the strait line of an unpleasing mass of light, and gives
a more graceful form to the whole; which artifice is also
assisted by the boat. Of the same consequence to the
principal figure, is the flock of sheep placed behind,
which helps to break the lines of the drapery, detach the
figure from its ground, and illustrate the history.

CARTOON III.
THE LAME MAN HEALED; COMMONLY CALLED THE
BEAUTIFUL GATE OF THE TEMPLE.
Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none, but such as
I have give I thee: in the name of Jesus Christ of Na-
zareth, rise up and walk.
And he took him by the right hand, and lift him up, and
immediately his feet and ancle bones received strength.—
Acts, cfiap. iii. ver. 6, 7.
This truly great composition is divided into three dis-
tinct groups, by means of the magnificent columns
which appear in the front of the picture, and are a part
of the colonade which supports the roof of the portico.
The two apostles, Peter and John, the cripple, and four
figures, whose heads only are seen, compose the group
Jn the centre : one side of the picture is filled with people
going to the temple, and its opposite with others coming
from it; which disposition Raphael has advantageously
employed in contrasting these two subordinate groups,