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MONTHLY RETROSPECT OF THE FINE ARTS. 
(The Loan of al! new Prints and Communications of Articles of Intelligence are requefted.) 
a 
Mexander Lord Loughborough, Lord High Chan- 
cellor of Great Britain.— Northcote caput pinxit. 
EF. Bartolozsi, etat. 73, feulpt. publifoed 
February iBoo! TP as: Re 
pat an engraving as this makes fome 
AD amends for ‘the fhoal of infipid and 
unmeaning: portraits of infipid and un- 
meaning individuals, which are weekly 
obtruded upon the public. It is a moft 
admirable print, and judicioufly unites 
what we have feldom feen fuccefstully at- 
tempted, the chalk and ftroke engraving. 
It is intended as a. companion print to 
thofe of Lord Mansfield and Lord Thur- 
low, publithed fome years ago, and it is 
Siving it high praife to fay, it is werthy 
of being a companion to them. Confider- 
ed as the-produétion of a man in’his 74th 
year, 1t may be pronounced a wonderful 
inftance of powers fo long retained ; and 
his marking it with the age at which it 
was produced, is a fair boaft, and an ho- 
nourable teftimony of his temperance, and 
a proud trophy of his fame; for, confider- 
mg the number of his works (engravin 
half of which would have blinded half of 
our modern artifts), he has a right to glory 
in his ftrength, and triumph in the cor- 
rectnefs of his eye, the fteadinefs of his 
hand, and the continuance of his tafe, 
On this we fincerely congratulate the pub- 
lic and him(felf, and heartily wifh this ve- 
teran patriarch of his profeffion a lone 
and honourable enjoyment of health and 
{pirits. . 
_ In the piéture from which this portrait 
18 engraved,-and which is inthe exhibition 
at Somerlet-houfe, the hands are different 
from the print, and, we think, they are 
both, particularly the left hand, faperior 
to the engraving. Why this variation 
was made, we know not; but fuppofe it 
was the reafon of the painter inferting 
Northcote caput pinxit, on the print. 
General La. Fayette in Prifon, attended by the 
Marchionefs and bis amiable Daughters—T. Stot- 
bard, R.A. delin. R.Pollard, Jeulp. publifhed 
by R. Pollard, Spa-Fields, price 7s. 6d 
This print is engraved in a fingular 
fiyle. It is a mixture of firoke, aqua- 
tinta, and mezze-tinto, which, combined 
as they are here, produce a very harfh and 
“uppleafant effet. The defign is not very 
good; but in the contrivance of the dare 
MONTHLY MaG. NO. 59. 
ofcuro, the expreffion, or fome other thing, 
there is always fomething in the work of 
Stothard that marks the mafter. By the 
uncommon hardnefs of this engraving, 
the merit, whatever it is, has been fo 
completely obfcured, that in fuch a chaos 
it is impoffible to recognize it. 
For. the late Sir George Hay, Hogarth 
painted a picture of A Savoyard Girl play- 
ing on her grinding Inftrument. lt is now 
in the poffeflion of Mr. Edwards, of Beau- 
fort-buildings, and has lately been en-. 
graved, and is publifned, price sos. 6d. 
Confidered as the work of that great 
mafter, there was every reafon to expect 
humour, charaéter, and merit; it has nei- 
ther one nor the other, but is merely a 
pleafing figure delicately engraved. 
Four numbers of Dodor Thornton’ sSexual 
Syftem of Linneus are publifhed, and do 
great honour to the talents and indufiry 
of the author. The printing, which is by 
Benfley,.difplays the improvements this 
‘country has made im that art, and bids 
fair to.enable us to ‘‘ fuatch the palm of 
typography from the nations in the conti- 
nent.” ‘The copper-plate title-page and 
dedication are in the ftyle of the laft cen- 
tury, loaded with flowers, which may dif- 
play the power of the writing-mafter and 
engraver; but render the page heavy, and 
difpleafe the eye. . 
The portrait of her Majefty (as pa- 
tronefs of botany aijd the fine arts), de~ 
figned by Sir William Beechey, and en- 
graved by Bartolozzi, is extremely neat, 
but rather deficient in force. J 
Flora, Ceres, and Efculapius, honouring 
the buft of Limneus, is, painted by Ruffel 
and Opie conjointly, and well imagined. 
‘Theré is a third portrait, of the Reve- 
rend Thomas Martyn, regius profellor of 
botany in the univerfity of Cambridge, 
with a view of King’s College-chapel, the 
public library, and fenate-houfe—Ruffel 
and Vandermyn. ‘The petals of tulips, 
‘anatomy of the blue Perfian flower, the 
fuperb lily, the aloe, &c. are defigned by 
Reineyle, and abfolutely emulate nature ; 
and admirably engraved by Earlom, Mid- 
Jand, Stadler, &c. 
We are forry that our fcanty limits do 
not enable us to enumerate more prints in 
this vey !plendid-workx, in which the au- 
thor feems to have made every exertion, 
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