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arc|)aeolo5ical 3fotirnaL SEPTEMBER, 184G. OBSERVATIONS ON THE PROGRESS OF THE ART OF SCULPTURE IN ENGLAND, IN MEDIEVAL TIMES, AND NOTICES OF SOME ARTISTS, BY WHOM IT WAS PRACTISED. Coinvmnicated by Sir Richard Westmacott, R.A., and read at a Meeting of the Section of Antiquities, at the Amtual Meeting of the Archaological Institute, in York, July 23, 1846. Tbe Aacensisn of Elijah, sculptured on a Saxcopbaftus at Rome. As the Arts are intimately connected with the epochs in which they are practised, and mark the state and variations of civilization and manners, more forcibly than any other cri- teria of their age, I have ventured, as Sculptm'c holds a dis- tinguished place amongst the medieval arts of England, to VOL. III. c c