1800.) 
MONTHLY RETROSPECT 
FINE 
HE Meffrs. Boydells have publithed 
the Portrait of Sir John Borlate War- 
ren, with Reprefentations of his Two Naval 
Viétories.. Price of the Three sl. 118. 6d. 
The Portrait, defigned by Mark Oats, 
Captain of Marines, is faid to-be a very 
{trong refemblance. 
The Woman taken in Adultery, and 
Tribute Money, by Facius, after Dufart, 
are almoft finifhed ; dnd the print of The 
Ceremony of Swearing in the Lord Mayor 
at Guildhall, after the picture by Millar, 
will be ready for delivery in the courfe of 
two or three months. 
Of the fpirit and tafte with which Mack- 
lin’s numerous publications have been 
con{tiucted, it isnot eafy to- fpeak in 
higher terms than they deferve. In fome 
cafes they have not only been creditable to 
the publifher, but an honour to the coun- 
try. . 
~The Sixth Number of his Poets, Price 
3l. 38. is juft publifhed: the four~ prints 
are from the following artifts: Conftantia 
ea 
or THE PROGRESS oF THE 
ARTS. 
ceived, and gives great intereft to the com- 
oftion. The clouds ace crouded with 
celeftial inhabitants, who, with fongs and 
choral {vymphonies, circle his throne rejoic- 
ing. We muft again repeat that in the 
engraving there is no fault; it is exceed- 
ingly rich and harmonious ; a grand breadth 
of unbroken light difplays a {triking whole, 
and renders it fo attractive that it cannot 
be paffed without notice.. It is publithed 
by Schiavonetti. 
The Apotheofis of Louis XVI. Hamilton, RA. 
pinxit. Bartolozzi, R.A. fealpt. Price 
tl.rxrs. 6d. In colours, 21.\33. 
This is precifely in the fame point of 
time as the print by Pelegrini, but in many 
refpeéts inferior. The female figure be- 
hind the king’s chair, whether intended for 
Pallas or Minerva, has certainly no proper 
bufinefs in that fituation: it gives the 
idea of Minerva, who, among angels, does 
not feem in her proper place. Though 
the defign cannot be much praifed, there 
by Rigaud; Hamilton’s admirable picture is a certain {weetnefs in whatever BarTo- 
from Gray’s Elegy ; and Scenes from twe LOzzr puts his hand to, which will lift 
old Ballads by Bunbury. They are all éven common place into fome confequence. | 
engraved by Bartelozzi, and poflefs the Aewhole length portrait of Suwarrow, 
ufual merit of the firft engraver intheworld. painted by Singleton from a drawing ad 
Rigaud’s Conftantia is elegant and claf- 
fical. _Hamilton’s piéture from Gray’s 
Elegy we have ever-confidered to be, if 
not his ff in merit, unquettionably equal 
‘to any .thing he ever painted. He has 
entered fully into the fpirit-of the poet, 
and given to his picture that fober fombre 
hue which is fo highly characteriftic of the 
fubjeét. The {cenery is addreffet to the 
mind, and calculated to imprefs it with the 
fame fentiments that would occur on read- 
ing the poem. Bunbury’s two defigns from 
old ballads aré marked with that fimple pa- 
thos which the fubject requires. 
Tie Happy Re-union. 
D. Pelegrini, V. A. pinxit \ ener an 
L. Schiavoneti, V. A. feulpe. 
This is the apotheofis of the Capets, and 
in point of engraving is a very fine print, 
but in fome refpeéts the original from 
which it is copied is faulty. The figure 
of the Queen is extremely inelegant. ‘Of 
the figure of Lowis the painter appears to 
have made as much as he could, but the 
head is fo heavy that it could not have been . 
animated even by the pencil of Vandyke. 
The Dauphin, brought to his parents by 
a Guardian Spirit, is moft happily con- 
wivum by Lieutenant Bifkeranini of the 
Waldeckdragoons. Engraved by H. Gil- 
lebank, 24 by, 48«_ Price ul. as. mez- 
zotinto. 
ter this is faid to be a ftriking likenefs, - 
The Return off Camperdown ; Whit. 
comb pinx, Hillyer fculpt : is a very fine 
print in the chalk manner. 
Going out for Milk, and Returning with 
Milk ; painted by F. Wheatley: engraved 
by C. Turner: mezzotinto ; are a pair of 
very pretty prints. In thefe little fimple 
fubjects Wheatley is fingularly happy. - 
The painter Bury, at Rome, wishes to 
fell his two large Cartons of Rubens, at 
100 ducats each, to extricate himfelf from 
‘fome pecuniary embarraflments ; he is alfo 
defirous of difpofing of feveral original 
defigns, and numerous copies of generally 
admired paintings, 
Prince Aldobrandini has fold his Chritt ° 
by Leonardo da Vinci, along with his 
whole gallery, to Mir. Day and Mr. Fa- 
gan, two Englifh painters fettled at Rome, 
for 5000 fcudi. Mr. Fagan has alfo pur- 
chafed from Prince Altieri two beautiful 
pictures by Claude de Loraine. — - , 
Among the works of art which hav 
been carried from Turin to Paris, is the 
L2 
Of this very remarkable charac- — 
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famous. 
