improvements, will he found in _The Mirror_, vol. xiii. p. 121. By
the way, the pillar and ball, which stood in the centre of the square,
and are seen in the present picture, were long in the garden of John
Kemble, in Great Russell-street, Bloomshury.

243. Portrait of the late Mr. Holcroft. _Dawe._ In this early
performance of the artist, we in vain seek for the "best looks" of the
sitter: such as the painter threw into his portraits of crowned heads.

248. The Happy Marriage. An _unfinished_ picture by _Hogarth_;
yet how beautifully is some of the distant grouping made out;--what life
and reality too in the figures, and the whole composition, though seen,
as it were, through a mist.

249. Study of a Head from Nature, painted by lamp-light. _Harlow._
A curious vagary of genius.

258. Daughter of Sir Peter Lely. _Lely._ We take this to be the
oldest picture in the gallery. Lely has been dead upwards of a century
and a half.

263. One of _Lawrence's_ Portraits of himself.

286. Sir John Falstaff at Gad's Hill. _T. Stothard_, R.A. The
figure has not the fleshy rotundity of the Falstaff of Shakspeare; he is
like a half-stuffed actor in the part.

298. Portrait of the late King when Prince of Wales. _Lawrence._
The features at this period were remarkably handsome; and considering
the influence of pre-eminence in birth, the expression is not