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Infelicities of Artists—an Extract from the American Edition of Boydell's Illustrations of Shakspeare, containing anecdotes of Torregiano, Banks, Barry, Blake, Proctor, &c.,     1

Advantages of the Cultivation of the Fine Arts to a Country,     6

Antiquity of the Fine Arts,     12

The Pœcile at Athens,     13

Mosaics,     15

The Olympian Jupiter     17

Painting from Nature,     18

Apelles,     18

Apelles and the Cobbler,     23

Apelles' Foaming Charger,     24

Apelles and Alexander,     25

Apelles and Protogenes,     25

Benjamin West's Ancestry,     28

West's Birth,     29

West's first remarkable Feat,     30

Little Benjamin and the Indians,     30

West's Cat's Tail Pencils,     30

West's First Picture,     31

West's first Visit to Philadelphia,     32