1806.] ( 547 ) 



MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS; 



The Lean of all rtnv Prints and Cammunkations of Articles of Intelligence are requejied. 



A RECENT and ever-to be-lamented inganJ flriking refemhlance to the unlver- 



dfath has given a new impuH'e to fally-lamepted original, 

 the fine- arts: every circumltance tiiat was Mr. Ackermann has publiflied a inoft 



previoufly in contemplation as a proper elegant giaphic tribute to his memory, in 



iuhjcft to delineate, is lor the prelcnt let which aie recortied all his moft diltinguifh- 



afide 5 and almt-ft all our artifts of any ed achievemenis. In the centre ot the 



celebrity are now immediately cr remote- print is an urn, wiih a beautiful weeping 



ly engagtd in fome work to commemorate figure bending over it ; on the bafe is a 



the brilliant n-ival triumph at Trafalgar, portrait, faid to be a peculiarly ftiong 



or the portrait of the Hero by whom it likenefs ; and beneath, a lion, a fpliinx, 



was achieved. That this fubjefl fhoulj ilie Gallic cock, a cannon, ftandards, and 



abioib every other, is highly honourable other appropriate infignia, with h view of 



to the feelings of the country ; and it fol- the engagement, &c., in the diltance ; 



lows as naturally as night to day, that the whole lunoun.lej by a glory, beauti- 



fully emanating from the centre. Dcfign- 

 cd by Uwins, and engraved by Cardon. 

 The following tiibute to the Admiral's 



the artilts fhouid not only (hare thefe feel 

 ings, but avail themfclves of Aich an op- 

 portunity to immortalize iheir own names, 

 by the commemoration of a viftory that memory is infcribed beneath the print 

 will emblazon thofe pages ot our hiflory 

 where it is recoided with a never-fading 

 Juftre. What was faid upon another fuhjec5f, 

 will, with little alteration, apply to this : 



•• The pencil's turn the public voice mud 

 give 



what elfe can 



'• Though Britain mourn, 



Britain do. 

 While bleeding Nelfon rifes to her view ; 

 Still is there caul'e fur tiiumph, when flie 



fliews 

 The finking colours of our vanquilh'd foes ; 



For thofe who live to pleafe, muft pleafe to And greater Itill, when Fame is heard to fay, 



live." ^ All, all were Nelfonson that glorious day.* 



May their exertions to confecrate this '^''""^h Fate had fnatch'd their Leader into 



memoiaHle event, tend to dignify the cha- u- r--../i-j j c >j y. r . i a 



n , , ' , ■ ■'.,, ,. His fpirit ftaid and fir'd each feamans breali ; 



raaer they thu. endeavour to illultrate, ^13 f^;^, „;,( 5,^^^,.^ ;„ ^^,^^,^1 ,j^.^^^ 



and be to their own and their country s R^und every fli^p, and mingled in The fight ; 



honour. SlUI for Old England Britons rulh'd to tame. 



We have, in our preceding Retrofpeff , Led on by CoUingwooJ, and Nelfon's name." 



C.J, 



This print Mr. Ackermann pubiifhed by 

 a fubfcription, in which he has the diftin- 

 guilhed honour of enrolling Their Majef- 

 ties, the Prince of Wales, and every 

 branch of the Royal Family. The print- 



roiiccd many great works on this fubjccl 

 that are to be piihlifhed at a future day ; 

 to thefe the prelent month funiifhes a con- 

 fiderable addl'ion ; and we have alfo to 

 notice fome that are already publifhed. — 

 Among the be:l of thefe is, 



A [uU Lng'.h Poitra-t cf Lird-Vijaunt Neljon, ed propofals fertile public announced that 



Duke of Btont'i, &c. J. Hoffner, K.A., the fubfcription at los. 6d. each would 



finxt. Meytrjhilpt. PuLliJhed by Colnaghi clofe the latter end of December, and after 



"^"l Co. j|^.^(. ,f,j, p^ijg would be \\. IS. In the 



The original pifture from which this (hoi t time the fubfcription was open, Mr. 



is engraved, we well remember; and 10 Ackermann had upwards of one tboufand 



fay tliat it was one of the bcff Mr. Hopp- fubfcribers. 



ner ever painted, is giving it very high Befides this, we have, from the fame 



praife. With refpecl to the print, if publifher, an allegorical print, dravi'n and 



pl.ced by the fide of one of tholls violent engraved by Saiilom, dedicated by permif- 



combinations of chalk and charcoal which fion to the Lords CommilTioncrs of the 



V^we have fometimes feen engraven (and Admiralty, reprcfenting Fame condufling 



which the artitt who fabricated it has dig- Admiial L >rd Nellbn to her temple.— 



nificd with the appellation of z. very for- The Hero is fcated on a triumphal-cnr, 



ciblef-rint), it will not bear the compari- and accompanied by Britannia, who 



fotij but it I.sa nioft piflurefque and agree- crowns him with laurel; Neptur.e waves 



»ble portiait, and, as we are told by thofe the Britifli enlign, inlcribed 'Britannia 



who knew Lord NeKbn, haf a very p!caf- rtik the Main,' Emblematical figures ot" 



3 Z * Europe, 



