of genius for improvement, and for the want of which he languishes here, are considered, it must be admitted that Dr. Anderson's merit falls little short of Mr. Bewick's excellence." The same publisher employed him  in 1802 to redraw and engrave three hundred of Bewick's illustrations in the "Quadrupeds," which Anderson said was "a laborious undertaking and poorly paid." He also executed for Longworth, both on wood and copper, the engravings for  the early editions of Irving and Paulding’s 
"Salmagundi."
  The doctor was an intimate friend of Washington Irving, whom be often met in the various publishing houses, and whose instructor he was in the art of playing the clarionet.  Mr. Irving always spoke of him in the pleasantest manner, and described him as being " handsome, artless, and full of good humor and as gentle as a woman."
Anderson engraved a number of pictures for the excellent set of small books issued by the Quaker publisher Samuel Wood, and for many years the publications of the American Tract Society were illustrated with wood-cuts designed and engraved by him.  His last important engraving on copper was made about the year 1812 and represented the Last Supper, after the original by Holbein.  It was
 

six inches by eight, and was considered a magnificent specimen of the graphic art.  Although an excellent engraver on copper, he much preferred wood, and from this time on confined himself almost exclusively to that material.  Some of his wood-engravings were of considerable size, a series engraved in 1818 to illustrate the four seasons being nine and a half inches wide by twelve and a half long.
"The fleshless monarch of the hourglass and scythe" had a great fascination for him, and he would often recur to subjects of that character.  In 1800 he made fifty-two cuts for "Emblems of Mortality," issued by John Babcock, a publisher in Hartford.  They were reproduced from the English edition illustrated by Thomas and John Bewick, which appeared in 1789, and were in the style of Holbein's famous "Dance of Death." A copy of this rare book is in the possession of Charles C. Moreau, Esq., who has a large collection of Anderso’s works, and has kindly given the author of this volume an opportunity of examining them.