1806.] 



Montldxj Rdrofpeci of the Fme-Arts. 



581 



fubcKiing ihe liglits; which m fome mo- 

 tlern pioduttions that we have feen, has 

 Lcen carried to fuch a height, that the 

 arfili, acting like a tyrannic conqueror, 

 has not only fubdutd bat exterminated 

 them. This produces hcavinefs and iuli- 

 l)idity. It was the opinion ol' Rubens, 

 and after him of Sir Jolhua Reynolds, 

 that a print required more light than a 

 picture ; becaufe a pitture is relieved 

 and animated by local colours, while the 

 engraver has nothing but black and white 

 to produce his ettect with. This was tlie 

 jiidpnent of Rubens, whofe advice and 

 iViendly admonitions produced a Boll- 

 wert, a Voftxrman, and a long ff cetera 

 of the firlt engravers that the world ever 

 %vitneired. 



^ full-Icngtb Pnrt of the Right Honomah'.e 



Charles Janes Fox. Fafhted by J. R. Smith ; 



etched and puulijhed by S. V/. Reynolds, Fe- 



land-fircit, Oftober ia06. 



Our readers may recolleft a very fine 

 mezzotinto print, which was engraved by 

 Air. Reynolds from .T. R. Smith's picture, 

 and wliicli we noticed at the time.it was 

 publilhed, with the approbation to which 

 it had every claim : this is a fmall and 

 flight etching copied from it. 



Jhe Right Honourable C. J. Fox, late Principal 

 Sec-ctary of State for Foreign Affairs. Eii- 

 gra-ved from a Dratuing taken from the ori- 

 ginal Figure in the foffcljion of y. Under- 

 ivood, Ejg. J Gilit>ank Ic. ; published by 

 Gillhank, 46, Upper Ratbbcr.c Place 



This is by no means a well chofen re- 

 fcniblancc of the great ftatefman lately 

 lofl to liis country and to his friends. It 

 difplays the countenance of a man fnf- 

 fering extreme inconv£'nience from bodily 

 pain, rather than that of one whofe 

 mental endowments were fo ftrougiy 

 JTiarkcd in his face. 



The Right Hon. Thomas Gren-ville, M. P. I. 

 Hcppner, pinxt., C. Turrer fulp. ; pnb- 

 liped by Turner, Jfarren fircet , Fit^roy- 

 jquare. 



We have feen portraits by this painter 

 that we liavc ibought better deligncd ; 

 but the mczzolinto is engraved in a very 

 fnafterly (lyle, and it may fairly be clafitd 

 as a very line print. 



Earl Percy, Pair.ted by T. Phillips, and en- 

 graved hv S. W. Rfynolds, by whom it is 

 infcribcd to the Duke of Nonkun.berlaiid, K. G. 



Of many of Mr, Pliillips's portraits we" 

 have h.ad occalion.l'j Ipeak in the liiglieil 

 leruis; Juit in tvuie of ihoie which he 



exhibited laft year, and in that now un- 

 der conhderation, alnioft all the face i$ 

 thrown into ihadow. Tliis, in pictures 

 by painters who are not choice in their 

 colouring, eives the lipures an appear- 

 ance of having dirty faces ; and is alro.^ 

 gether a trick of finguluriti/, unwoithj 

 of fuch an artift as Mr. Pliiilips. 



In the management of the print, the 

 engraver has difplaycd his ufual ability, 

 and ihewn both ikiU and tafie ; but for 

 want of li^ht, the life and foul of a 

 print, the ert'ect is in a degree milty and 

 feeble, w hich is by no means the charac- 

 teriltic of engravings by. Reynolds. 



Two Prints engraved by Fac'us, from ttoo Pic- 

 tures painted by OJiauc. Pubtifred by Facius, 

 Macclesfield-ftrtct, and Molt eno, Pall-Mall. 



This pair of prints are extremely well 

 engraved in the chalk ftyle, from two 

 \cvy beautiful cabinoL pictures in the pof- 

 fellion of the Rc\-. Mr. Buhner. 



Pointers — Setters, Painted by Sarlorius; en- 

 graied by JV. Ward, Engra-uer to his Rcyal 

 Highnejs the Duke of York; and puhlijhed 

 by y. Linnell, Strctthatr-Jireet, Bloomjbury, 



Two very fine mezzotinto plates, from 

 pictures in which the animals are deli- 

 neated with great fpirit and fidelity, and 

 the back-grounds are both appropriate 

 and picturel'que. 



Devis's picture of the death of Lord 

 Nehon is in a fgrvvard ftatc. In the de- 

 lineation of t'his, and fimilar fubjefts, \\c 

 have fometimes feen an artift, in his zeal 

 to difplay agony or any other paUion, fo 

 fiir derjicp the. modefty of nature, that he 

 has given us theatrical boinbaft in the 

 place oi' hifiorical painting. Of this Mr. 

 Devis is not guilty. In the principal 

 character he has preferved what thofe 

 beft acquainted with the heroic original 

 confider as a very ftriking refemblance ; 

 and to it he has united an expref'l.on of 

 counien.ance, that we think is conceived 

 in a timilar fpirit to wliat is exprelfed by 

 ?.Ir. Bell, in his admirable E[fiij on t/ie 

 Anutomi/ if lixprejfion in Painting; 

 where, after a very line Iketch and de- 

 fcription o( dcfpuir, rage, and Iwdilt/ pain 

 arifmg from mortal wounds, he thus con- 

 tinues : 



" If a man is (hot, there ^^ ill be no 

 fuch furious ex|)rcliion ; there is here 

 often a (Irange and inc\i)licable nervous 

 eO'ec^t, a trembling and linking of tl;c 

 body with faintncfs and oppreffum ; the 

 face and body pale, cold, and livid. In 



