4801.) 
“ters to be cut in'wood, at the expence of 
‘the French government, for his Chinefe 
Dictionary. This precious colle@ion was 
depofited about fifty years fince, in the 
National Library, and is preferved com- 
plete. ‘There is befides a Dictionary, 
Latin, Chinefe and Mantchou, in three vo- 
lumes, folio, of which 1 have fpoken in 

Retrofped of the Fine Arts. 


“§ 5A 
the 5th volume of the Notices e# Extraits 
des Manufcrits de la Bibliotheque Nationale, 
page 581---606. There are likewife fe- 
veral Dictionaries, Chinefe and Mfantchou, 
very extenfive and voluminous, in the 
National Library, pwblilhed by order ef 
the Emperor at Pe-éing. 


MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(Tbe Loan of all new Prints and Communications of Articles of Lntelligence are requchied.) 

Rural Mu/fic. Weftall del. Gaucain JSeulp. 
Rural Contemplation ; defizned and engraved , 
by the fame Arti/}s. Publifbed for Méoffrs. 
Boydell, Cheapfide, and the Shakefpeare 
Gallery. Price 125. each. 
HESE are upright prints, and, as 
Mr. Weftall’s invariably are, moft 
enchanting and fafcinating little figures. 
The eafe and fimplicity of character pe- 
culiar to this artift, he has moit happily 
transferred to thefe two little rural: peo- 
ple; the boy has a pipe in his hand, is a 
fort of fylvan-minftrel, and feems atten- 
tively liftenine to the birds, with which 
We may naturally fuppofe fuch a fcene 
abounds. ‘Fhe girl is a very attractive 
and fimple figure. : 
The Mufbroom Girl and Furze Cutter, 
engraved from the fame artift, are now 
printed in colours, and have a very pic- 
turefque effec. 
Portrait of Lady Hamilton. Romney pinxit. 
George Keating feulpfit. Publifbed for 
Meffrs. Boydell. Black Impreffions, 73. 6d. 
In Colours 15s. 
The number of portraits of Lady Hamil- 
ton, which have been painted by Romney, 
muft, be in the recollection of many of our 
readers. ‘This admirable artift feems. to 
have thought, and perhaps truly, that, 
amid{ft all the blaze of beauty with which 
Great Britain is irradiated, it was hardly 
poflible to find fo engaging a fubjec as 
this fafcinating and enchanting woman, 
as remarkable for her attractions and 
graces, as for her form. This portrait 
is extremely well engraved in the chalk 
manner, and is a very pleafing print. 
The five prints from the pidtures in 
Guildball are now fusifhed and printed in 
colours, at eight guineas the fet. The 
Alderman prefented a fet of them to the 
Charter Houfe ; and on the anniverfary of . 
the Founder’s day, Dec. 12, 1800, many 
very elegant compliments were paid to 
this worthy magiftrate, in a claflical La- 
tin oration, fpoken by one of the young 
~ gentlemen on the foundation. 
ad half-length Portrait of Lord” Keith, 
Hoppner pinxit. S. W. Reynolds feulpfit. 
This is a fpirited and well-painted por= 
trait, and engraved in a very mafterly 
ftyle. 
Portrait of the Marquis of Donegal. Paints 
ed by Mafgucrier, and engraved and pub- 
lifoed by C. Turner, Warren Strect, Fiize 
roy Square. Price B45. 
Mr. Ma/querier is a very young, anda 
very promifing artift. We have looked 
at fome of his more early productions 
with great pleafure, as'giving a right to 
expect future excellence, and he has not 
difappointed our expectations, He has 
improved, is improving, and, if he con- 
tinues to give the fame attention to his 
art which he appears to have done hither- 
to, he will become a favourite with that 
public who in almoft all cafes have no- 
ticed thofe who deferve it. 
The print is in mezzetinto, and ex- 
tremely well engraved. 
Bonaparte, Firft Conful of the French Re- 
public, born at Gorfica, 1767. 
His Royal Highnefs the Archduke Charles, 
late Commander in Chief of the Aifiriaz 
Armies, born 1771. Publifsed by Cribb, 
Holborn, Dec. t. 1800. Price 5s. the pair. 
Thefe two prints are extremely well 
engraved, in the chalk manner, by Mr. 
Nutter, who made fo admirable a copy of 
Stuart’s Portrait of General VW afbinyton, 
which was publifhed by Cribb fome years 
ago. = ve 
Rebinjon Crufoe. Aquatinta by W. Ellis, 
drawn, engraved, and publifhed by R. 
Pollard, Spa Fields. Price 155, 
This is a very clever print: Mr. Pol- 
Jard,. in the compofition of the figure, 
has undueftionably had an eye te Barker’s 
Woodman, to which this, confidered as 
a figure, isnot equal, but, from the mixed 
manner in which it is engraved, produces 
a very good effect; and as it is done with- 
out much labour, gives a fpirit and ife 
to the whole. 
Two Numbers of Landfcapes, (Inventions ) 
by Robert Cooper, efg. Drawing Mafter 
to her Majefty, are publificd at tOs. 6d. 
each Number: To be continued. 
Two large Views of Windfor, North and 
South. Engraved by Alken, from Drazv= 
ings by R. Uooper, as abovey ci tl tis. 6d 
the Pair. oe 
Mr. Cooper’s drawings (efpecially his 
drawings in landfeape) we have frequet “™ 
ly had-occaficn to notice ;.and by who- 
ever 
