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and gone to avery great expence, to render 
it as far complete as the united efforts of 
the firft artifts in the country can make 
af. 
Cupid-unveiling Venus.— Painted by. R. Cofway, 
R. A. FF. Whectley, del. A Cardon feulpte 
publifbed May 15, 1800, by dherman, Strand, 
price Wl. 1s. -Proofs, vl. 11s. 6d. 
This bears a ftrong refemblance ‘to 
Weftall’s Wood Nymph; but, though a 
fine print, is not equal to it-in merit: _ the 
fore-ground is rather poor, being broken 
into little parts by the introdudticn of a 
number of little {prigs of one fize and ap- 
pearance. 
The Bird-Catcher-—The Kite Compleated. F. 
' Barney pinxt. F. Gaugain fealpt. . Publifhed 
by Morgan, Margaret-firect , Cavendifb-fquare, 
and F. Barney, MMa:xe-bill, Greenwich 5 price 
12s. the Pair. 
Thefe are figures of boys, apparently 
portraits; and though they do not excite 
rhuch intereit, are a pleafing pair of prints» 
Gul going to Market-— Boy returning from Fifh- 
mg. Barker pinxt. Gaugain feulp. . Teftolini 
excudit. publifbed April 20, 1800, by Teflo- 
ini, Cornbill, price 11. 1s. the Pair. Proofs, 
ales, 
. This. very beautiful paw of prints are, 
we believe, ivom,the detigns of Barker, of 
Bath, who fo early diftinguifhed himfelf 
by The Woedzan, which was in-Macklin’s 
gallery.. Whether by him, or another 
artift of the fame name, they are extremely 
fine, and engraved in the chaik>manner in 
a very delicate and matterly fiyle. 
A Fern-cutter’ sChild engraved by Meadows.from 
a Drawing byR Wefial!, Eg. RA.in the Pofeffion 
| of William Chamberlain, Ejg. and A Girl ga- 
_ thering Mufbrooms, from a Drawing by the 
fame Artift, in the Poffc{fion of Thomas Streat- 
' field, Efg.' are engraved by’ Meadows, and 
publifoed, price 7s. 64. each, by Meff.-Boydell. 
Two more beautiful little prints we 
have never feen; they are conceived with 
all that clegant and fafcinating fimplicity 
by which Weftall’s drawings are fo de- 
fervediy diftinguifhed, and engraved in a 
ftile that preferves the delicacy and foft- 
nefs of the originals. 
there is a little appropriate land{cape ; in 
the latter, the artift. has introduced a 
_ group of cows, which have all the tafe of 
Adrian Vandevelde; at the fame thne, 
by his happy management -of the back 
ground, he has avoided that littlenefs 
which is fo commen in the accompani- 
iments to fuch* Asures as are here intro- 
Maced. 
Retrofpedt of the Fine Arts. 
In each of them) 
Morland’s four celebrated piétures of Fox- 
hunting, reprefenting the fetting out in the 
morning ; the entering into cover; the 
check; and the death, reprefented in = 
farm-yard; has engraved them in two 
mezzotintos cf the fame fize as the origi- 
nal pictures, viz. twenty inches by twenty— 
fix; aud the other two are in great for- 
wardnefs. ‘The prints are to be delivered 
in pairs, in the order fubfcribed for, om 
the following terms: The fet, confifting 
of four prints, proofs, 4/. 45. Common 
impreffions, 3/. 3s. In colours, 8/. 85.— 
The price to be raifed to non-fubferibers. 
Nantes of fub{cribers to be received by 
Mr. Freeman, Norwich; Mr. Colnaghi, 
Pall] Mali; Mr. Teftolini, Cornhill, &c. 
&c. and at Mr. Bell’s, No. 4.5, Taylor’s- 
buildings, Iflington-road, who engraves. 
them, and where the pictares may be 
feen. 
No. I. reprefenting Lhe feiting out in 
the Morning, and No. IV. The Death, are 
finifhed, and have all the merit which 
Morland’s pictures are remarkable for,i.e, 
they are faithful to nature, though rather 
coarfe in their conception and execution. 
The prints give a very good idea of the ~ 
ftile of the criginals; but might have had 
[June 15 
Mr. Bell of Ifiqgton, having purchafed | 
more variety of tint todiftinguifh the dra~ © 
peries, hands, face, &c. of the figures. 
A Pair of large and fpirited Tranfparencies, from 
the popular Play «of Pissarro, are juft publifbed 
‘by Random and Stainbank, No. 17, Old Bond- 
freet.. The firft is from AG IV. Scene Te 
and the Pont of Time, when Elvira afas, 
<¢ What if thus 1 free myfelf 2? (fbews the 
agger.)—Rolla. ‘* Strike it to my Heart ! 
Still with the convulfwe Gralp of Death, Pit 
bold thee faft.” 
The lamp fufpended from the top of the 
prifon, relieved by the dark and fombre 
hue of the back ground has a moft bril- 
liant efeé&t. The figures are tolerably 
drawn ; but with a very, little attention te 
the faces, they might have had fome por- 
tion of appropriate charaéter, and borne 
fome refemblance to the dramatis perfone 
who perform thé parts of Elvira and. 
Rolla. ' 
AG. V. Scene I]. Rolla retreating acrofs- the 
Bridge, with the Child ibis Arms. 
/ 
The cataract and back ground have a 
ftiking effet; but the figures are vilely — 
drawn; thé head. of Rolla is twifted out 
of nature, and the man fiting a gun feems ~ 
to fand on the topmoit boughs of a tree... 
Difs Linavood’s Exbibiticon fill intercits 
and engages much attention from all the 
admirers jof the fine arts, Since the frit 
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