52 



\Retrofpea of the Fine Arts. 



[Aug. 1, 



From the fame publiflier we have No. I. 

 ■ of a feiies of heads engraved in chalks, 

 by T'. Nugent, for the improvement of 

 thofe who are learning drawing. This 

 Number contains four heads, viz. 

 jirladne and Diana, drawn by L. De Longaflre ; 



Miner-va, by J. Jgar j and Safina, by 



Maria Cojiuay. 



Thefe heads are as large as life, and 

 admirably calculated for the improvement 

 of young pra£litioners in the art, being 

 in a free and eafy if ye, and the air cf t'le 

 heads, efpecially the Ariadne^ is unaf- 

 fefled and plealing. They are as large 

 as life, printed on a light: brown drav>'ing. 

 paper; the two fiill are en profk, the 

 others are full faces. No. II. is an- 

 nounced for fj)eedy publication. 



The twelve fmali coloured prints, on 

 half a ll)cet of paper, for card-marks, 

 are, in this age of piftnres and prints, a 

 novel and good thouf;ht. The diflTereiit 

 groupes are in fmnll icjuarcs, principally 

 caricature fubjei^.s, reprefcnting Ficnch 

 and E;;gr.fh travelling, fafliion, &c. and 

 confidering their reduced fize, they are 

 very whimfically charailerifdc. 



Mr. Ackerman has alio publifned Pro- 

 pofals for publilhing by Aibfcnpaon, to 

 be paid on delvery, two (.rims, from the 

 intertfting views in the City of Dublin, 

 after drawings made by T. S. Ri.bcrts, 

 and executed in a liyle not to be diftin- 

 guiflitd fiom the originals. Size 35 by 

 ■a8 inches. The firlt rcprefcnts a South 

 yieiv on the River Liffty, taken from the 

 Co;il Qnay, or Fru.t Market. 



The fe'coiid, a yieiv of College Green, 

 Wefimordaiid fireety part vf Sack-ville- 

 Jlreet, and CartijU Bridge, taken fiom 

 Grafton-ftrect. Fo be ready on or be- 

 fore Chri(fm:is next. 



We have had frequent cccafioii to fpeak 

 cf the works of. Mr. Koberis, and frtm 

 the talle and abiliiies he has difplayed in 

 his preceding produflions, we form very 

 high expeftations of tliele two prints. 

 ^utb and her Aj ether ; and Ruth 'and Boaz ; 



Com f anion Prints. H. Singleton plnxt. H. 



GMai:kjtulj.t. PubnJI.ed by James Daniel!, 



Strand. 



The only hillorical fubjc£ls which our 

 early painttrs atieinpttd 10 delineate, 

 were built upon I'cnpmre hiflory, or the 

 ftrange Itgendary (lories of their canonized 

 /aims. Tl'.e luppit0ion of monafitiies, 

 and prohibition of piiflnres in chuichcs, 

 induciu the few ai tilts vte had to change 

 their ityle, and, as in other tilings, the 

 change was carried to an t;xtienie } lor 



thgugh tiie Bible abounds in fubje£f$ ad- 

 mirably calculated for the pencil, our 

 modern painters have rarely adopted them. 

 We were therefoie glad to. fee the two 

 above fubjcdls chofen by Mr. Singleton, 

 and he has treated them in an intcrefting 

 and agreeable manner: the engravings, 

 which are in mezzotinto, are worthy oi 

 the piftures, and both together form a 

 very pleafing pair of furniture prints. 



Love, ChaJlUy — Companion Prints. K. Single 



Ion, p'vxt. A, Cardon, jetilft. 



To allegorical pcrfonages we never had 

 much partiality, but in thi> little piece 

 of fancy prints they arc agieeably and na, 

 turally introduced, and wel.l enough enr 

 graved in the chalk manner. 



The panoramic liyle cf painting is no 

 longer to be cop.fidered as a n-ivelty, but 

 it (till retains its attraflioiis as a wonder- 

 ful ap;Mr,pii;tion of the i'.i.rfption to b^ 

 produced by perfpeffive, and u grand ao, 

 plication of iln. ait ot pointing. There 

 are n jw three Panoram.is exhibited to the 

 public, in difTtrent places, viz. — The 

 Vitvv of Edi burgh, in Leiceftcr-fquare ; 

 The Battle of Agincjurt, at the Lyceum ; 

 and the Bay of Naples, in the Strand, 

 All thefe have great merit, but taken in 

 every point of vi.-w, the B:iy of Naples is, 

 perhrips, the mperior pi6\ure. 



The Morland Gallery, at Macklin'i 

 Room, in Fleet-ifreet, continues open. It 

 contains 95 piclures cf very unrqual merit: 

 the marine fubj. ts au in general inferior 

 to the land fcciirrv ; fomc of them are 

 feeble, arid the tonm. 'kc that formerly 

 pained by Fienct) ai tilts, reminds the 

 ipeftator of the curls I'f a periwig. In 

 fliee ', hogs, and rulUcs,_ efpecially the 

 ru!tics of the (tabic, he was at home, and 

 his Aorks are of a very luperior clafs to' 

 thole rf Ibme other artiils that we could 

 mention, whofc names rank very high, 

 but whofe rtpuiaiions have been obtained 

 by their exaCt imitations of the manners 

 of preceding painters. They lludied ^:V- 

 tures, but Vliiland (tudied nature, and 

 his peculiar talle led him to fcenes where 

 he (aw the fubjeCts he painted in all their 

 varieties. In conftqutnce of this, his 

 figures, animals, &c. " Are Englilh, 

 Eiiglifl), Sirs, from top ta toe." Many 

 of his little fimple (ubjcfls are over- 

 whelmed with luperb frames, of a pro- 

 digious, and in feme cales, we think, of 

 a prepoderous depth. However, to thofe 

 vvlio wilh to conitmplate nature as it js 

 in our own country, the whole, taken to- 

 gether, .will afford much entertainment;. 



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