1779-] 
may deem proper. This, while it com- 
memorates the victory obtained by the 
gallant admiral, refleéts high honour on 
the lady, who in this age of trifling and 
diflipation, can quit the gay and giddy 
-circle of fafhionable folly, and boldly 
venture on a tafk which demands not only 
talentsand tafte, but labour and perfe- 
verance. 
An admirable copy from an equeftrian 
model of the King by Carlini, was-fome 
time fince etched by Bartolozzi, and is 
now completed, and publiihed by BRom- 
LEY. 
Some very correct and {pirited copies 
from’ Hogarth are juft publithed in the 
third volume of JOHN TRELAND’s ** I/- 
hufirations of Hogarth,” copied from ori- 
gmal drawings, &c. in the poffeffion of 
the Editor, who alto poflelies twelve very 
curious pictures /rom Hudibras, painted 
in the ‘early part of Hogarth’s life, and 
beaming with {pirit and character. 
With a view to the farther advance- 
ment of the imitative arts, Mr. James 
Tassi£, No. 20, Leicefter-fquare, Lon- 
don, has long been employed, and with 
great fuccefs, in transfering the figures 
and heads of antique and modern engraved 
gems into coloured glafs and enamel, fimi- 
lar to the originals in colour, durability, 
and brilliancy. This, according to the 
opinion €xprefled by fome eminent con- 
noifeurs, proves to be the fineft difcovery 
for perpetuating the works of miniature 
f{culpture that has been made in modern 
times. Hence may various remaths of 
ancient genius, which were loft to the 
world at large, be univerfally diffufed, 
with all their intrinfic excellence. It 
tends greatly to facilitate this branch of 
the ttudy of antiguity, that the fubjects 
may be comprehended in a narrow com- 
pais, are conveniently portable, and not 
liable to mutulation, like the other pro- 
ductions of fculpture, which are formed 
in the ordinary manner.. Having about 
thirty years ago been induced to give up 
his practice in the large figures, Mr. 
Tassie betook himfelf alfo to the mo- 
delling of portraits, finifhed in femi- 
tran{parent enamel, refembling the pureft 
oriental onyx, and fuitable to be ufed as 
rings, bracelets, feals, and other orna- 
ments, The fociety of arts and com- 
merce confidered his fpecimens of cameos 
tb be fo great“an improvement, that they 
were pleated to encourage him by a hand- 
fome bounty. He has been countenanced 
by many of the firft perfonages in this 
country, as well as by feveral dittin- 
guithed promoters of the arts abyoad. 
State of the Arts in London. 
5b 
The late Emprefs of Ruffia was pleafed 
to honour him with orders to execute a 
complete cabinet of intaglios and cameos, 
accompanied with an hiftorical defcrip- 
tion; and preferving, as accurately as 
poffible, the appearance of the original 
gems. He has for many years been en- 
gaged in foreign and other commiflions 
for feleét collections of intaglios and 
cameos, alfo of fulphurs and other cheap 
compotitions. The intaglios are fo made 
as to feal either with or without being 
mounted in feals, and ere placed in vari- 
ous kinds of fmall cabinets, which are 
eiteémed peculiarly convenient for ladies 
who amufe themfelves by cafting im- 
preflions.—As medals have ever been a 
favourite mode of procuring the portraits 
of celebrated characters, Mr. PINKER-., 
TON, who has been at uncommon pains 
in obtaining the moft authentic portraits 
of the Scottifh kings, has fuggefted the 
modelling of thefe, and fuch other fub- 
jects as it may be thought proper to per- 
petuate. Mr. P. has enabled Meffis. 
‘Tassie fenior and junior to make a be- 
ginning, and f{pecimens may new be feen 
of James I, to James V. and of Mary. 
To avoid the expence incident to the en- 
graving or dyes, thofe medals are to be 
caft in metal, in imitation of fuch as were 
executed at the time of the revival of_the 
arts. Should this attempt meet with ap- 
probation, itis intended to go as far back 
as any real veftige can juttify. Mr. 
Tasste’s colleétion of coloured pafte in- 

taglios and cameos, white ename}, and 
fulphur impreffions of ancient and modern 
gems, which amounts to 20,000, has been 
about forty years in forming, and exceeds 
in number, variety of {ubjeéts, and ftyie 
of engraving, every other in Europe. It 
contains almoft every great collection of 
originals, including the beft works of 
antiquity; together with fuch as bar- 
barous or lefs polifhed ages, as well as 
modern times, have produced. In this 
view, it is peculiarly calculated to fhew 
the origin, progrefs, former perfectiow, 
and prefent ftate of the art. 
There has appeared at Paris, froma 
Dipor’s prefs, in 4to. a very complete 
edition of ‘* Anacreon;’’ containing the 
Greek text, the Latin verfion, a French- 
tranflation, critical notes, and two pre- 
liminary differtations by Profeflor Gari, 
Greek odes fet to mufic, and a difcourfe 
on the mufic of the Greeks. 
In a contagious typhous fever which 
prevailed in Tufcany about a year fince, 
Dr. Potiporr fuccelsfully made ufe of 
a method, conlifting of the exhibition of 
mils 
