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1817.

MEM AOKK

PREFACE.

THE Conclusion of the third Number, completes the Volume for the year 1816; and those in future will consist of four Quarterly Numbers, beginning and ending with the year.

This first attempt at a Journal of the Fine Arts, should be received with indulgence; for by encouragement and kindness, it may assume all the required features of so desirable a work. It has been the wish of the Editor and Proprietors to give it the most miscellaneous character that so connected a subject as the Fine Arts could afford; and they confidently promise that the succeeding Numbers shall be an improvement upon the present.

They cannot but lament the differences and unhappy distinctions, that some unworthy members of the republic of the Fine Arts, have fomented, and still endeavour to keep alive, between the opulent Patrons at the head of the British Institution and the Members of the Royal Academy; and trust their exposition of the cabal of the Catalogue Raisonné may produce its desired effect.

From the various galleries of pictures in the metropolis, they have selected that of Alexander Davison, Esq. for their first, from its containing nothing