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ReirofpeSf of the Fine Arts'. 



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Phte T. of a Fatioram'c V'tcTo of St. PetcrJ- 

 iurgh, dedicated, by Pcrmijfwn, to bis Impe- 

 rial AJajefiy Alexander I. Drawn on the 

 Spot by y. A. Atkinson, from the Obfetva- 

 tory of the Academy of Sciences. Pubhjhcd by 

 Boydell and Co, Size 31 by 17. 



This the firft of a feries of four prints, 

 vthich it is intended to publi(h from 



by Boydell and Co. and dedicated to tbeir Ma*^ 

 jefiies. The Si'^e 24 by ig. 



This is intended as a companiin print 

 to one entitled Conju'^al Affedion, en- 

 graved frjm a piclure painted by the faine 

 artift, and now in the Council Chamber 

 at Guildhall. For thole who are not fa- 

 tisfied with any other delineafion« than 



drawings by the fame artift, and they fuch as reprefent the heroic achievrments 



will form an interefting view of thi^ ca- of high and exalted chiiafters, this print 



pital city. The four drawings w/ere ori- is not calculated. L ke the companion 



ginally intended to have been combined, piflure, it is an a imirable and interefting 



and to have been formed into a Panorama, reprefentation of a domfftic fcene, where 



and ihey would have made a very fine the charaflers are taken from the middle 



one; but from not meeting with a fuit- ranks of life ; and may be confidt-red as 



able place for exhibition, or fome other coming home to all men i bufmefs and bo- 



caufe, that plan was abandoned, anl they fums. It is an addrels to the inind, in a 



are fubmitted to the public in the above langu'^ge which may be underftood by all 



prints. To render views of towns and who have underltanding ; and will be lek 



cities correft, aid at the frtme time pic- by all who have feeling. With regard 



turefniie, is not an eafy tafk. Among to the executive pirt, the print is very 



the numerous artifts who have painted correftly copied Itom (he pii5lure. 

 them, from Canalletii to Mai low, how 



few have been fuccel'sful ! In this deli 

 rration it may be fateiy affirmed, that the 

 difficulty is furmounted ; for it is in an 

 eminent degree p:£lureique and agreeable. 

 If we inay be permitted to adott a tech- 



Urta, from Spencer's Faerie Shtetv. Dcfgnci, 

 engraved, and publiped, by R Weflail, R.A. 

 May, 1S05. 

 The elegant and poetical defign from 



which this print is engraved, was exhi- 



nical phrafe, taken as a whole, it has ^ited at the Royal Aca.lemy .i> 1S04, 



what painters fomeiimes call a peculiarly «"J '^ ^^^^ to be a portrait ot Mi's Eflen. 



pleafing eye. Thofc who have not fben I^ '« engraved m the fame manner as iome 



the place cannot judge of the accuracy of o'h<^rs which he has pubhnied, and is, we 



the delineation ; but from the informa. believe, ecched m a lott ground, and the 



tion of fome perfons who have refided in Aefli-coloor, &c. afterwards wrougtvt 



Ruffia. and from the well known abilities "P "''"h a pencil. Be that a« it may, 



of the artilt, we have realon to believe 't '« certainly the beft_ ftyle that 



that it is fingularjy correft. '^''"''^ ^^ adopted for mutating drawings 



of this delcription ; and though the pro- 



J-hmlet. T, Lawrence, P. A. pinxf. S. TV. cefs nnift be rather tedious, the cffecl i« 



Reynolds, fculpt. Publiped by Boydell and extremely piiluitfque, and in almolt every 



Co. Alas ! poor Torick. particular equal to the original. 



The original piflure from which this ., ^ , , „„ ur/v^t .. „^:„. 



h. , ° ^ L-i • J in 1 Mr. Ackerman has publiiheJ a print, 



copied, wis exhibited at the Royal r • 



& J • o 1 r repiefenting 



Academy in 1803, and was, as Jar as '^ ° 



we recolleft, conlidcred as a portrait of The Launching of hit'Majc/ly's Ship Hiberma, 

 Mr. Kemble. It is not, however, a very »/ '^o G'"'^) Ciraand Pallas Frigates, of 



ftriking reftmblance. It is engraved in 

 mezzotinto, and the general efftf.i folemn, 

 impreflive, and highly appropriite to the 

 fcene and fubjcft. Taken as a whole, it 

 muft be claflcd as a very fine print, though 

 if would perhaps have been better if the 



32 Guts each ; and the Unhcking the if. 

 George, of 98 Guns, having undergone a 

 complete Repair, on the i-jih of No-vernier, 

 1804. R. Parker del. Jiluck j'culpt. 



It is dedlctfed to Lord St V.ncent, ^n 1 

 ftiews the ctfcrt prcdticed by his Lord- 



rinht leg and thigh had been a little more fli'P'" mode of working the (liipwrights, 

 diftinflly nnde out. In th? pifture they under the direftion ot Jofhua Tucker, 

 were feparated from the cloak by the local Eli^. &:. &c. When primed m colours, 

 colouring, but in the print they are loft it is ir finitely more pi«ituieque than ma- 

 aml confuled in the (hadows. It is in- rine fuojoih uliially arc; tlis fhip ing it 

 tended at a companion print to the Rolla, very concclly Jriwi.,Hnd immtnle groups 

 which was published fome time fince. «* 'i't'e figures in the lurrounaing hoais. 



Sec. hive an action and fjiiit that i» vei y 

 Tie Crandmorher's BleJJlng. Painted by Robert rr-ri^Ug'Ven to fuch minute ddineatious. 

 tuiikc. Er.gr^.'ved by IV. Eians. Publiped Tile whole is very wJl engraved. 



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