-1800.] 
tothis for Mr. Riley; and that Mr. Ro- 
berts was originally intended to engrave it, 
but from fome circumftance or other, there 
was a difagreement between the ‘parties, 
and the drawing was put into the hands of 
another artift; and Mr. Roberts has de- 
figned and engraved this on his own ac- 
‘count, Suchis the ftory we have heard, 
but whether exa&tly correct or not we can- 
not vouch; certain it is, that this print 
has the fame general obje&t, 7,e. a com- 
memoration of our heroes of the ocean, 
and equally certain it is, that if the print 
which Riley intends to publifh has any fu- 
perior merit, this cannot much injure it, 
for it has very little merit either in defign 
or execution. 
The Faggot- Binders. 
F. Bartolowzi fe. 
Fleet-freet. 
Whatever came from the hand of that 
favourite child of nature, the late Mr. 
Gainfosrough, muft be valuable: the 
flighteft eflays of his pencil had an ealy 
fimplicity, an elegance and talte, which 
gave them a manifeft fuperiority to the 
moft laborious efforts of many of that high- 
finifhing and laborious fchool, who feem to 
have aadrefled the botanift rather than the 
veriuofi, and whofe delicate delineations 
were better calculated for the mount of a 
fan than for the cabinet of connoifleur. 
Tis plate was prepared and etched by a 
Morris, an engraver, who for feveral years 
worked tor Mr. Hogarth, and the figures 
are by Bartolozzi, and of figures which he 
engraves from Gain{borough’s defigns it 
is hardly neceflary to fay, that they are 
eafy and natural. It is in the line engray- 
‘ang, and a very pleafing print. 
Embaffy of Hyder Beck to Calcutta, from the Vi- 
zier of Oude, by the way of Paina, in the year 
1788, to meet Lord Cornwallis. Publifped by 
Laurie and Whittle, Flect-firect. Price 2]. 25. 
JF. Zoffanii pinxit. R. Earlom fecit. 
This picture was exhibited in the Royal 
Academy: many of our readers will re- 
colleét it from the principal figure in the 
principal groupe being a male elephant 
Killing his driver who had offended him. 
‘There is an immenfe number and infinite 
variety of figures, and from the accurate 
fidelity with which Mr. Zoffanii invariably 
marks whatever he copies, we dare fay it 
gives a true idea of the people. Confider- 
ed inthis point of view it isa very curious 
print ; but confidered as a defign, it is bro- 
ken into parts; the compofition wants 
what painters call @ whole. The engrav- 
T. Gainfborough pinxit. 
Publifbed by Mackliny 
ing is in the mezzotinto ftyle ; and when we - 
acd that it is in Mr. Earlom’s beft manner, 
it is net caly to give it higher praife, 
Retrofpec? of the Fin: 
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The two beautiful drawings of The - 
Minftrell, and a little female figure, its 
companion, by Weftall, which we noticed 
in a former Retrofpeét, are exquifitely en- 
graved, and printing in colours, and will 
ina few days be publithed by Mefirs. Boy- 
dell, They have the effect of the originals, 
and the originals are as elegant and well 
marked as any thing that ever came from 
the hand of the matter. 
The exhibition of the ftorming of Seviz- 
fkapatam is now announced to be exhibited 
to the public a longer time than was firlt 
intended. ‘The alterations recently made 
in the feats and {tage appropriated to 
the fpeétators give more. various, and 
nearer points of view, for the obfervation 
of this very curious delineation of this very 
interefting fcene ; and the view may be 
fairly entitled, Zhe Lrinmph of Perfpec- 
tive. 
The full length portrait of Mr. Alder- 
main Boydell which Sir William Beechy has 
painced for the Council Chamber at 
Guildhall, is a very frong likenefs of this 
venerable and refpectable magiftrate. A 
number of allegorical figures, allufive to 
the alderman’s long and extenfive exer- 
tions for the advantage of the arts he loves, 
are to be added, and the picture is very 
properly tobe placed in the Council-room, _ 
with thofe very fine productions which he 
formerly prefented to the city of London. 
Many of our readers muft recolieé&t a very 
fine portrait of Lord Eide, painted by , 
Lawrence, and exhibited. at the Royal” 
Academy. Mr. 7. R. Smith, of King- 
ftreet, Covent-garden, has nearly finifhed 
a mezzotinto print from if, and it 1s pér- 
haps the fineft portrait the arti ever en- 
graved: he has transferred to his copper, 
with moft correct drawing, all the cha- 
racter which fo eminently marks the ori- 
ginal. 
‘The. beautiful and celebrated ftatue of 
the Venus de Medicis, which was one of 
the fineft ornaments of the Florentine Gal- 
lery, has lately been depofited in the Cen- 
tral Mufeum of the Arts at Paris. 
The French Academy of Painting fs 
faid to be on the eve of being revived un- 
der the denomination of Te Free Society of 
Arts. It is at firft to be compofed of twelve 
artifts, among whom are mentioned Citi- 
zens Vincent, Rigaud, Cerard, painters ; 
Citizens Pajou, Heudon, Efpercieux, {culp- 
tors; and Citizens Le Grand, Challegraia, - 
Percier, and Bienatné, architeais. 
Mrs. Cofway has juft finifhed a fet of 
pictures illuftrative of the contrafted en- 
joyments and miferies of Summer and 
Winter, 
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