ever they are noticed,they mutft be praifed. 
They are in a ftyle peculiar to himfelf, 
and peculiarly excellent. The firft two 
numbers (inventions) are in an admirable 
tafte, and in the foft ground, &c. equal to 
any of the old mafters. ‘The two large 
views of Windfor are by far the beit 
views of Windfor that have ever been 
publifhed. The original drawings are in 
the poffeffion of the King. 
In a former Retrofpect we mentioned 
the very curious paintings difcovered in 
St. Stephen's Chapel. Mr. J. T. Smith, 
of Great Portland Street, has made correct 
copies of them all, comprifing the /crip- 
ture biffory, the armorial bearings, gro= 
tefques, Fe. Fe. Thefe drawings he in- 
tends to engrave and publifh, ejther in 
correct outline, or filled up with the co- 
lours, gilding, &c. of the originals. 
Two of the drawings we have feen, 
and it is not cafy to imagine any thing fo 
near the original pictures could have been 
transferred to acopy. ‘They gave a per- 
fe& idea of the air of the figures, the 
character of the heads, and, above all, of 
that foft and delicate ftyle of colouring 
fo difficult to imitate. In their general 
effe@ they brought to our recollection 
fome of the very beft of the beautifully 
iuminated miffals, a few of which have 
efcaped the ravages of time, and remain 
in the cabinets of the curious, and in pub- 
lic libraries. We with him that fuccefs in 
his publication which the attention he has 
paid to the fubje& fo fully merits. 
- The fame artift has at length completed 
his Antiguities of London. The volume 
contains 96 plates of honfes, monuments, 
ftatues, &c. &c, &c. many of which, dur- 
ing the progrefs of this work, have been 
deftroyed. This gives additional value 
to the publication, in which we have re- 
marked one particular not very common 
in periodical works, the laf numbers are the 
be fe 
- is very remarkable that, though every 
county in England has been illuitrated by 
plates, the City of London, the metropolis 
of the kingdom, was never illuftrated in 
any one work until this publication. 
Mr. Smith is alfo engraving a copy of 
@ very curious old picture, containing a 
view of Whitehall, and exhibiting the old 
palace, royal cock-pit, horfe guards, trea- 
fury, old hall, Holbein’s-gate, and the 
tilt-yard. The drefles, &c. difplay the 
softume of the time of Charles I]. with a 
portrait of that jocund monarch attended 
by his queen and nobles. The fize of 
the plate is large folio, and the price will 
he ros. 6d. 
A {mall portrait of Colonel James Ro- 
bertfon, of the Weftminfter Volunteers, 
is engraved, and will be publifhed in a 
few days. It is copied from a painting 
Retrofpe& of the Fine Arts. 
[Jans f, 
in miniature, by Jchn Thomas Mitchell, 
a felf-taught artift of uncommon abilities, 
and will be publifhed for him at No. 19, 
Clipftone-ftreet, Mary-le-bonne. 
The family of the Hopes have been 
for ages famous for one of the fineft col- 
lections of pictures in Europe. Mr. Tho- 
mas Hope, nephew to Mr. Hope, of Ca- 
vendifh Square, has built a fuperb room 
in Mansfield-ftreet, Portland-place, from 
the defign of Mr. Sexton, of Weftmin- 
fter, for the reception of pictures by old 
mafters, and for the purpofe of admitting 
artifts to ftudy. 
‘© Thefe are imperial works, and wor- 
‘ thy kings.” 
Mr. Barker is preparing a painting of 
the review in Hyde Park on the 4th of 
June, for a new Panorama. 
Mr. Alderman Boydell fome time fince 
purchafed from Captain Baillie all the 
plates belorging to his volume of etch- 
ings, confifting of the copy of the Hun- 
dred-guilder Print, and a number of other 
copies from old mafters. The captain fill 
continues to amuse himfelf with his fa- 
vourite ftudies in etching, engraving, &c. 
at his houfe on Liffon-green. 
Mr. Cooke, of Covent Garden Thea- 
tre, has fat for his portrait to J. Corbett ; 
and as this is the only picture that has 
been painted of him, and, as we have been 
informed, the only one for which he will 
fit, it is to be engraved and fpeedily pub- 
lifhed by J. S. Egar, on a plate 12 inches 
by 9. Price 5s. plain, ros. 6d. in co- 
lours. To be fold at Cooke's, Norfolk- 
ftreet, Mary-le-bone ; Cordeti’s, Martlet- 
court, Bow-fireet; and gar’s, Great 
Ruffell-ftreet, Bloomibury. 
Mr. Livefey is about to publifh a large 
print of the Féte given to his Majefty by 
Lord Salifbury at Hatfield. In this priat 
are to be introduced portraits of many of 
the nobility and gentry who were preient 
at this magnificent fpectacle; and we 
fhould fappofe, that, to thofe who are fond 
of a picture with a great deal of buitle, 
and the view of a great multitude of people 
of confequence, extremely bufy about no- 
thing, it may be interefting. 
Mr. Richardfon, of York Houfe, Strand, 
intends to have a {mall number of im- 
preffions taken from Brome’s portrait of 
Mr. Pitt, on the new fort of paper made 
of ftraw, to be prefented to the Royal Fa- 
mily. 
Mr. Flaxman, who has united to an 
originally fuperior tafte a long and atten- 
tive ftudy of the beft models of antiquity, 
during many years refidence in Italy, is 
modeliing a mural monument to the me- 
mory of the late Mr. George Stevens, of 
Hampftead. {t confifts of a circular baflo- 
relievo of Mr. Sievens contemplating the 
buft of Shakefpeare. 
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