1806.] Monthly lidrofpcet of the Fine- Arts. 



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between its bearings, no relief will be 

 given, unkii the idle wheels he al'ixeJ 

 to the bottom o( a luyjgagc box ; and in 

 this cafe, tlie nearer thelc idle wheels 

 ■are to the f;round, the more lelicf will 

 be given. If there be an obltacle in the 

 road, and an idle wheel takes over it, 

 its refpeditive attive wheel will for the 

 time be difcharged from the ground. 

 The bottom of the luggage-box lieing fo 

 near the ground, otl'ers a method of 

 checking very much the motion of a car- 

 riage down a hill, by the ftroiig and ready 



application of the end of a lover to rul» 

 on the ground, rhe idle wheels (hould 

 be fixed or fet on in fucii a niuimer 

 tliiit they may be vertical wlieu an acci- 

 dent brings tlicm into work. From tha 

 great v'ariety in vehicles, in fprin'js, and 

 in their application, it will fomctnnes be 

 requifite to put the idle wheels on the 

 body of the luggage-box of the carriage, 

 and fometimes on any part or parts of 

 the under-curriage, and fometimes on 

 both. 



MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF TEIE FINE ARTS. 



*/■ T/ic Loan of' all New Frtii's, and Commuiucationn iif' Articles c>f lutalli^cneff 



arc requejled. 



T.gcrs. y. Nortl'cote, R.A., pinxit. TV. An- 

 na fcul^it, and PiihUJhcr. 



THIS print is copied from n picture 

 in the poUoliion of J. Lifter I'arke, 

 Eiq. 



Many of our readers mull rccolleft a 

 Hiczi^otinto print of A Tiger eoueiiaiit, 

 engravetl by Dixon, from a paiuLaig by 

 Stubbs. The plate was melted in a fire 

 that happened at the copper-plate print- 

 er's ; and that fuch an accident ihould 

 liavc deliroyed it, was much regretted at 

 the time, for it might in many refpetrts be 

 clalitjd as the tineit; mezzotinto that ever 

 Wts engraved. To fay that this is quite 

 equal to that, would be wrong ; but 

 tlioiigh not the very tirft in the elal-,. it is 

 in the very firil line, being a molt fpirited 

 and animated print, with a richnefs of 

 ell'oct that has rarely been iurpulfed. 



)[he Shl}:iurecked Manmr. Painted by H. 

 Thimjui, R.ji. EKgravid by W. %. Pub- 

 lipjcd ly Mr. Mackhn. From a P'lSlwc hi the 

 Pcjieffion of Sir R. C. Hears, Bart., lo wi>sm 

 :hii Print is dedicated^ 



The picture from which this finely-en- 

 8^a\en4ne7.zotinto is copied, was exhibit- 

 «d at the Royal Academy in 1804. The 

 l'ubj('Cl is & pour fliipwrecked mariner, 

 littiiig with his hands clafped together 

 Upon a rock, calting a melancholy look 

 towards the lea, witli which he appears 

 to be furrounded. It is fomewhat deli- 

 cient in th.at pathos of character and I'o- 

 Jcnmily of effect ^vhich in fuch a fcene 

 lliouid harrow up the ibul ; but it is ne- 

 "Vfcrihelefs a very pleafing furniture-print. 



Ltrd Vijiount Mel-vi)!e. J. Rifing pinxit. John 

 Toung J..u'.pii , and Publijher. 



I'iwu the kjigua^cj which has b^en 



ufed in Edinburgh, &c., we fliould fup- 

 pofe that with ibme perfous this print 

 will be extremely popular. Others it 

 may perhaps remind of a remark made 

 many years ago by the late Dr. Johnibn, 

 to whom an engraver cjf foiue eminence 

 brought a liigh-tinilhed portrait of Lord 

 George Sackvillc, (ionw after liis Lord- 

 ibip's return from Germany,) and Itated, 

 with a figh, that he wrlhcd for fomc ad- 

 vice concerning it, for though he had 

 taken infinite pains with the engraving, 

 he could not fell a print. " Sir, (replied 

 Johnibn,) it appears to me to be a very 

 good portrait, but it is drejl too fine tor "a 

 foldier : cl;an;j;e the folitaire for a halter, 

 and you will fell as many as you can get 

 rolled from the printing-prefs." 



This jjiint is laid to be a refcmblance, 

 as indeed moft of thofe by llifmg are ; 

 but it has on the whole a dark and heavy 

 eftett. 



A Pair ef Prints of a Race-Cjurfe. Plate I. 



refnfeming the Horjes preparing to Start.— 

 Plate ir. Coming-in. Sketched by C. Turner 

 on Port- Meadowy mar Oxford, from the Han- 

 ters Stakes run for in 1B02. The Hcrfi 

 p~in!:d by J. L. AgajTc. Engraved by C. 

 Turner. And dedicated to Lord Friincis Spen- 

 cer and G. Stratton, Efq., bv the Puhltjher 

 R. Aehrmann. Pi ice 11. lis." 6d., or 31. Sj. 

 coloured. 



Our habits of life not having led us in- 

 to fcenes of this defcription, we cuimo^ 

 be fuppol'cfi competent to form fo accu- 

 rate a judgment of parts of thcfe prints 

 as a regular profelVor of the turf philoj'o- 

 phy. I'he liorfes are however drawn 

 with great fpirit, and the iiroup of fpetfa-* 

 tors, &c., ni both of them, render the 

 whole ciijjii<;iitly pl^'afuig an(l pictiu-efrjuo. 

 Re a aid* 



