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1788. Theseus receiving the clue from Ariadne. A finished

Sketch.

1789. Beatrice. Vide Much Ado about Nothing.

1790. Wolfram introducing Bertram of Navarre to the place where he had confined his Wife with the Skeleton of her Lover. Vide Contes de la Reine de Navarre. 1792. Falstaff in the Buck-basket. Vide Merry Wives of Windsor.

Christ disappearing at Emaus.

1793. Macbeth; the Cauldron sinking, the Witches vanishing. Sketch for a large picture.

Amoret delivered from the enchantment of Busirane by
Britomart. Vide Spenser.

1798. Richard III. in his Tent, the night preceding the Battle of Bosworth, approached and addressed by the Ghosts

of several, whom, at different periods of his Protectorship and Usurpation, he had destroyed.

1799. The Cave of Spleen. Vide Rape of the Lock. 1800. The Bard. Vide Gray.

The Descent of Odin. Ditto.

The Fatal Sisters. Ditto.

1801. Celadon and Amelia. Vide Thomson's Seasons. 1808. Thetis and Aurora, the Mothers of Achilles and Memnon

the Ethiopian, presented themselves before the throne of Jupiter, each to beg the the life of her son, who were proceeding to single combat. Jupiter decided in favour of Achilles, and Memnon fell. Vide Eschylus.

1804. The Rosicrusian Cavern. Vide Spectator.

1805. The Corinthian Maid.

1806. Count Ugolino, Chief of the Guelphs of Pisa, locked up by the opposite party with his four sons, and starved

to death in the Tower, which from that event acquired the name of Torre della Fame. Vide Inferno. Milton dictating to his Daughter.

1807. Criemhild the widow of Sivril, shews to Trony, in prison; the head of Gunther, his accomplice in the assassination of her husband.

1808. Cardinal Beaufort terrified by the supposed Apparition of Gloucester. Vide Hen. VI. Pt. 2nd. act iii. sc. 3. 1809. Romeo contemplating Juliet in the Monument. Vide Shakspeare.

The encounter of Romeo and Paris, in the Monument of the Capulets. Ditto.

1810. Hercules, to deliver Theseus, assails and wounds Pluto on his throne. Vide Iliad B. 5. v. 485.

1811. Macbeth consulting the Vision of the Armed Head. Vide Shakspeare.

Sarpedon slain in Battle, carried home by Sleep and
Death. Iliad B. 17. v. 682.

Richard III. starting from the Apparition of those whom
he had assassinated. Vide Shakspeare.

Dion seeing a Female Spectre overturn his Altars and sweep his Hall. Vide Plutarch's Life of Dion.

1812. Lady Macbeth seizes the daggers. A sketch for a large picture.

The Witch and the Mandrake. Vide Ben Johnson.
Eros reviving Psyche. Apuleius.

Ulysses addressing the Shade of Ajax in Tartarus.

1814. Sigelind, Sifrid's mother, roused by the Contest of the Good and Evil Genius about her Infant Son. Vide Liet der Nibelunge, XI.

Queen Mab

"She gallops night by night through lover's brains," &c.

Vide Romeo and Juliet.

Criemhild mourning over Sifrid. Vide Liet der Nibelungen, XVII.

1817. Perseus starting from the Cave of the Gorgons. Hesiod's Shield of Hercules.

Theodore in the Haunted Wood, deterred from rescuing a Female chased by an Infernal Knight. Vide Boccaccio's Decameron.

Criemhild throwing herself on the Body of Sivril, assas sidated by Trony. Das Nibelungen lied.

Sivril, secretly married to Criemhild, surprised by Trony,

on his first interview with her, after the victory over the Saxons. Das Niebelungen lied.

1818. Dante in his descent to Hell, discovers amidst the flight

of hapless lovers, whirled about in a hurricane, the forms of Paolo and Franscesca of Rimini. Vide Inferno, Cant. 5.

A Scene of the Deluge.

1820. An Incantation. See the Pharmaceutria of Theocrites. Criemhild, the widow of Siegfried the Swift, exposes

his body, assisted by Sigmond his father, King of Bel-
gium, in the minster at Worms, and swearing to his
assassination, challenges Hagen Lord of Trony, and
Gunther King of Burgundy, his brother, to approach
the corpse, and on the wounds beginning to flow,
charges them with the Murder. Lied der Nibelunge.
Aventure XVII.-4085, &c.

Ariadne, Theseus, and the Minotaur, in the Labyrinth,
Vide Virg. Æn. 6.

1821. Amphiaraus, a chief of the Argolic League against

Thebes, endowed with prescience, to avoid his fate withdrew to a secret place known only to Eriphyle his wife, which she, seduced by the presents of Polynices, disclosed: thus betrayed, he on departing commanded Alcmeon his son, on being informed of his death, to destroy his mother. Eriphyle fell by the hand of her son, who fled, pursued by the Furies.

Jealousy. A Sketch.

Prometheus delivered by Hercules. A Drawing.

1823. The Dawn.

"Under the opening eye-lids of the morn:

What time the gray-fly winds his sultry horn."

Vide Milton's Lycidas.

1824. Amoret delivered by Britomart from the spell of Busy

rane. Vide Fairy Queen.

1825. Comus. Vide Milton.

Psyche.

Posthumous pictures.

Total 69.

For by much the larger and more interesting portion of the facts contained in this memoir, we have been indebted to the kind communications of several of Mr. Fuseli's intimate friends. We have also availed ourselves of the biographical notices in Pilkington, the Monthly Mirror, and the European, Gentle man's, and Imperial Magazines,

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No. X.

THE REV. ABRAHAM REES, D. D.

THIS eminent person long held a most distinguished rank in the literary and scientific world. He was the son of the Rev. Lewis Rees, a dissenting minister, who contributed, during an almost unexampled length of active life, to promote the cause of nonconformity in North and South Wales. When Mr. Lewis Rees first settled in the northern part of the principality, the country was, with regard to religion, in a state of extreme barbarism, for which it is by no means difficult to account. For many years after Wales was incorporated with England, great pains were taken to eradicate the Welch language, and, by a particular statute in the reign of Henry the Eighth, it was enacted that "no man that used that language could enjoy any office or fees under the Crown." Though the stigma thus fixed upon the tongue of this hardy race of ancient Britons produced no material change among the generality of the Welch, yet it did not fail to excite, in a considerable degree, the ambition of those who were best capable of instructing in the sound principles of morality and religion the great mass of the people. Looking to the favour and preferment which generally attach to those who readily acquiesce in the measures of a court, many of their ecclesiastical guides either ceased to labour in the vineyard of their heavenly master, or delivered their instructions in an unknown language. It is true, that after the reformation, both under the aupicious reign of Elizabeth, and during the profligate one of Charles the Second, the Welch language was commanded to be used in the churches in Wales, where that language was commonly understood; but, as if to counterbalance the good effect which those ordinances were calculated to produce, it was long the custom to induct to the

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