This plate, with the two preceding, has been engraved for the work called the Museo Borbonico, at Naples ; but as that production, owing to its treating of many subjects together, has but a very limited sale on the spot, and is quite unknown in the north of Europe, it may have its value, the Muses being precisely those who are liable to suffer most under the hands of a modern artist.

The Muse Thalia is here represented sitting with a species of golden tiara on her head. Her garment is yellow. She holds a pedum, or hooked stick, in her hand, and has a mask and wreath on her lap. A drum or tympanum, also appertaining to tragic exhibitions, is near ; and a graceful female, possibly a sister muse, leans upon the back of her chair.