17 JUNE 1848, Page 18

FOLEY'S INO AND BACCHUS.

A marble group, by Mr. J. H. Foley, is exhibited at the shop of Messrs. Dickinson in New Bond Street. It represents Ino sporting with the infant Bacchus. The nymph half lies upon the ground, playfully holding up a bunch of grapes; at which the baby god is crowing with delight. The little Bacchus is a fine fellow; the nymph is very beautiful and graceful; the marble is a handsome specimen of stone. The face of the Inc: is rather

disfigured by too great shortness in the upper lip, and is chilled by to much classic rigour in the lines for so genial a subject; a sacrifice which need not have been made by an artist who can combine geniality with so much grace as he has done in the female figure.