From a mould which Chantrey made of the bust, he took several good casts, which were chiefly distributed by Mr. Watt and his son among their personal friends. But, as in the case of Sir Francis's equally fine model of the head of Sir Walter Scott, "the bust was pirated by Italians; and England and Scotland, and even the Colonies, were supplied with unper"mitted and bad casts, to the extent of thousands,-in spite "of the terror of an Act of Parliament."* On receiving one of the genuine casts, fresh from the atelier of Sir Francis, Sir Walter Scott wrote to Allan Cunningham,-" I have to "thank you for sending me in safety a beautiful specimen of "our English Michael's talents, in the cast of my venerable "friend Mr. Watt: it is a most striking resemblance, with all "that living character which we are apt to think life itself "alone can exhibit." +

When the Art-Union employed the late Mr. Wyon to execute a medal in honour of the memory of Sir Francis Chantrey, the design adopted,-a simple and expressive one,—was, for the obverse, a head of the sculptor, with the legend

"CHANTREY SCULPTOR ET ARTIUM FAUTOR: "-t

for the reverse, a copy of his greatest work. The work selected was the monument to James Watt;-with the inscription

"WATT

"FRANCISCI CHANTREY OPUS."

The medal was finished by Wyon with all the force and facile elegance of his admirable style, and thus forms a graceful memorial of those whose names it bears.

We must not conclude this notice without referring to some of the most exquisite of all the likenesses of Mr. Watt, viz. the reduced copies of Chantrey's bust which Mr. Cheverton

*Sir F. Chantrey to Sir R. Peel, 26th January, 1838. Lockhart's 'Life of Scott, clap. lxxxiv. p. 763, ed. 1842.

Life of Scott,' chap. 1. p. 440, ed.

1842.

See the obverse of this medal engraved at p. ix. of Winged Words on Chantrey's Woodcocks,' 1857.

has, with great ingenuity, executed in ivory. They possess the most perfect and truthful adherence to their original, as well as the most finished execution, that it seems possible to desire; and it gives an additional interest to those beautiful morceaux, that they are produced by a process similar to that which Mr. Watt himself invented.* Indeed, Mr. Watt, in sending to his learned friend the late Mr. Thomas Thomson of Edinburgh, what he calls a specimen of his attempts at carving," a wooden John Locke, without Human Under"standing, valuable only as a faithful copy of an ivory medal"lion done from the life," says, "if I live, I still hope to be "able to produce a reduced copy of Chantrey's bust of myself, "fit for a chimney-piece;" adding, with a very sincere, but a very unnecessary scruple of his usual modesty,-" as I do not "think myself of importance enough to fill up so much of my "friends' houses as the original bust does."†

* See above, pp. 454-466, on the Machine for Reducing and Copying Sculpture.

Mr. Watt to Mr. Thomas Thomson, 26th May, 1818.

END OF THE LIFE OF WATT.