The Man laying his bread on the bridle of the dead Ass. _Sterne._ The Captive. _Ditto._ Cupid letting loose two Doves. Cupid asleep. Children eating cherries. St. Anthony of Padua and the Child. Jacob and Laban with his two daughters. The Women looking into the Sepulchre and seeing two Angels where the Lord lay. The Angel unchaining Peter in prison. Death of sir Philip Sidney. Death of Epaminondas. Death of chevalier Bayard. Death of Cephalus. * Kosciusko on a couch. Abraham and Isaac. _Here is the wood and fire, but where is the lamb to sacrifice?_ Eponina with her children giving bread to her husband when in concealment. King Henry pardoning his brother. John at the prayer of his mother. Death of lord Chatham. Presentation of the Crown to William the Conqueror. Europa crowning the Bull with flowers. West's garden, gallery and painting room. Cave of Despair. _Spencer_. Arethusa bathing. Cupid shows Venus his finger stung by a bee. Ubald brings his three daughters to Alfred for him to choose one for his wife. * Pylades and Orestes. Besides the two hundred and ninety-nine large finished pictures here mentioned, Mr. West has done about one hundred portraits, and upwards of two hundred drawings with the pen; which last, for sublimity of conception, are among the finest of his works. So that the whole of his pieces amount to above six hundred. Some of them are larger in size than any in the national gallery of France; and he has not been assisted by any other painter. Mr. West is now about sixty-eight years of age. He discovers no abatement in the activity of his genius, nor in the laborious exercise of his talents. He has painted several fine pictures since the above catalogue was made. Three of which I have particularly noticed in his painting room: Tobet and Tobias with the fish; Abraham sending away Hagar with her child; Achilles receiving from Thetis the new armor; and we hear that he has lately painted the Death of Nelson. He may yet produce many more original works; tho it is presumed he has already exceeded all other historical painters, except Rubens, in the number and variety of his productions. With regard to the merit of his pictures, I cannot pretend to form a judgment that would be of any use in directing that of others. He is doubtless the most classical painter, except Raphael, whose works are known to us. The critics find fault with the coloring of Mr. West. But in his works, as in those of Raphael, we do not look for coloring. It is dignity of character, fine expression, delicate design, correct drawing and beautiful disposition of drapery which fix the suffrage of the real judge. All which qualities can only spring from an elevated mind. No. 46. _Nile pours from heaven a tutelary flood, And gardens grow the vegetable god._ Book IX. Line 287. O sanctas gentes, quibus haec nascuntur in hortis Numina. Juv. Sat. 15. No. 47.