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A P PEN DIX.VOL. 1. Page 101.Observations upon a picture called La Madonna or Nuestro Senora del Pez *, malleby Mr. Henry, an hish gentleman, who 'Oisited the Escurial in the year 1754 ..'qC~f$'ioned by the King's painter (Signol' Amiconi) having said it was not a pictl~reWRqfael [hbino.W~iOSOEV:j;R wishestoiorm a correct judgement of a picture, should above all thing~ascertainprecisely the purport of it,; for an historical painting is éssentiaIly a representation;and for any one precipitately to enter upon the dep~eciation or praise of aportrait, without knowing what reselPblaJ+l9~it>l>,ears to its origiJ+lal, is nothing betteythan an aLsurd temerity.But a;s portraits vary infinitely, according to the points of vieW in which they aretaken; so one and the. same object will appear very different, according to the momentof time which is seizedfor committing it to canvass. As for example: The resnrrection,of Lazarus, at theinstant Christ cOlmnands hilJ:l to rise from the sepulchre, willhe in many circumstances the direct reverse of that same resurrection considered atthe point of time immediately following. In the first case, in regard to the spectators,a appear disposed to helieve in the. miracle about to be performed: manywill resu1.t, and many more willmock at and ridicule the attempt of outSaviour.int~~~~econd stag~.ofth~. procedure,. the most will appear conmnced,few will hesitate, aJ+ld a very small numher indeed. appear incredulous. Hope, feal",suspicion, gqubt,. disbelie(, wiU he the l)redominatlng passions of aIl in the, first act;,astonishrnent, joy, convictiOJ+l,anda confusedagitation, succeed to them in the second.When the intention ofthecal.1Vass is alllbiguous or!Jdefective, inthis case the imaginationis al\thotized to determine its pm'port, and supply the deficiencies : butindifficulties of thi8 ~l~tture, .itis requisite th.a..t the intention shou1d be ingrafted upouthe paintillg, arldnot the painting upon the intention. The purport or object once'il< This Ipasterpiece of that first of paintêrs, referred to in' page 101, appears in the present day tohave escapednotice. There remains, howev~~;?