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 and Sentiments. 401 enabled them to draw interiors with more of detail than in former periods. We have almoft invariably the chimney, and one "rich chair," if not more. In our cut No. 256, we have a fettle in the chamber, which is turned to the tire. This pifture is taken from a manufcript of the early French tranflation of Jofephus, in the National Library in Paris (No. 7013), and reprefents the death of the emperor Nero, as defcribed by that writer. All the furniture of this chamber is of a fuperior defcription. No. 257. The Nurjing Chamber. The large chair by the bed-lide is of very elegant defign 5 and the fettle, which is open at the back, is ornamented with carv^ed panels. Our next cut (No. 257), taken from a manufcript of Lydgate's metrical Life of St. Edmund (MS. Harl. No. 2278), reprefents the birth of that laint. 3 F This