de of the pedestal, peasants
are resting from the labour of the plough; a yoked ox shows the nature
of their employment; a ploughman takes a refreshing draught, from his
wooden bottle, while a youth blows a horn to call his fellow labourers
to an humble repast, which a female is busily engaged in preparing.

----Corydon and Thyrsis met,
Are at their savoury dinner set,
Of herbs, and other country messes,
Which the neat handed Phyllis dresses.

In the other relievo, which decorates the eastern side of the pedestal,
reapers and other peasantry are conversing and reposing from the toils
of the field. The group consists of a mower, a reaper, a harvest man
stooping to bind a sheaf, a shepherd and his dog. The principal and
central figure is that of a young female laden with corn, and holding a
sickle in her right hand, and is a most exquisite, and, we had almost
said, unparalleled piece of sculpture in its kind. In truth, the
unsophisticated, self-willed, easy, rustic, grace, of this figure, is
raised by the art of the sculptor into intellectual existence--

Her form is fresher than the morning rose,
When the dew wets its leaves; a native grace
Sits fair proportion'd on her polish'd limbs,
Veil'd in a simple robe:

and all the characters are simple; yet free from any alloy of grossness,
while the grouping and drawing are excellent in a very high degree.
Modern art, excepting it be in the principal figure of Barry's Grecian
Harvest-home, has produced nothing of the kind, which can be compared
with this reaper, or which is so perfectly the vigorous offspring of
Poetry and Sculpture, generated in their happiest moments.

Mr. Westmacott has wisely chosen to display the most prominent and
distinguished trait of the Duke's character, and to that he has confined
himself. He has not frittered attention as a common-minded statuary
would have done, by endeavouring to make the subject of his chisel
appear to have been every thing that is great and good: he does not
compliment the Duke of Bedford, by surrounding him with various virtues,
and representing him as having been a great statesman, philosopher,
patron of art and literature, orator, agriculturist, &c. &c. but by
seizing the principal feature of his mental character, and representing
him simply as a great agriculturist, or patron of agriculture, he
powerfully impresses one important truth, which no spectator will
forget, and all who possess