MODELLED BY JOHN FLAXMAN, R. A. EXECUTED BY G. F. PIDGEON & ENGRAVED BY ANKER SMITH, A.R. A. FROM A DRAWING BY MARIA DENMAN. Published as the Act directs Jart1 1808. PRINTED BY R. WILKS, CHANCERY-LANE. Sold by the HOUSEKEEPER, at the SOCIETY'S HOUSE, in the ADELPHI; [Price TEN SHILLINGS and SIXPENCE.] MDCCCVII. PREFACE. THE HE Society agreed on the 4th of December, 1805, in consequence of their Medal Dies having become unfit for work, that J. Flaxman, Esq. R. A. should be desired to furnish a design for a new Medal, on the principles suggested by the late James Barry, Esq.* Mr. Flaxman most readily acceded to the request of the Society, and completed the model for the dies, which were executed in a style highly to the credit of G. F. Pidgeon, Esq. the artist. The Frontispiece to the present Volume, exhibits the obverse of the die, drawn from it with great elegance by Miss. Maria Denman, and engraved by Anker Smith, A. R. A. This engraving was intended to have been inserted in the 24th Volume of the Society's Transactions, but was prevented by various incidental circumstances, and the superior manner in which it is now completed, will, it is presumed, be a sufficient apology for the delay. The arrangements of the constituent parts of the present Volume, are upon a similar plan to the former; the various * This was a subject respecting which Mr. Barry was particularly anxious, and his sentiments on it are fully stated in the preface to the 19th Volume of Transactions, |