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fave the labour of fhifting the pumps, and 
the expence of the eyes, and alfo the fink- 
ing of the bottom of the vats, as one eye 
and one lower part for a pump will ferve 
for as many vats as may be coanected to- 
gether. By.this procefs the eflence or ex- 
tra& of bark made very firong, and at a 
great diftance from the tannery, may be 
uled to more advantage than by any other 
procefs, as the working of it frequently 
through the leaks will confiderably purity 
it from the great eae that it poffefles, 
and which is one of the greatelt objections 
to its being generally ufed for the purpoles 
of tanning. The cozes and the extract 
Retrofpebt f the Progrefs ft the Fine Arts. 
, 
64£ 
may be freed from the acid by paffing or. 
filtrating them through various fabftances 
befide bark, but bark is at preient found 
to be the moll convenient for the purpole. 
By this method of tanning, many other 
kinds of bark may be ufed to adyantage, 
befide oak-bark, viz. elm, afh, &c. as 
the ooze may be obtained of any degree 
of ftrength that may'be required, though 
the bark may not be fo ftrone a tan as oak- 
bark. Frem experiments I have made, I 
have reafon to think that as good leather 
in every re{pect may be made by this pro- 
cefs, from elm-bark, afh, &c. as ever was 
made from oak-bark. 
Several other New Patents are deferred till our next for want of room. We particularly entreat 
Lhe ufe of copies of [pecifications as fion as enrolled. 

MONTHLY RETROSPECT. 
OF THE PROGRESS oF THE 
FINE ARTS. 
[As this Article will ie future be.continued regularly, all Printfellers, Engravers and 
Pubiifbers, who wifh for an early Notice of their Works, are requefted to forward a 
Copy of each as foon as publifbed, to Mr. Phillips, No. 71, St. Paul’s Church-yard.] 
BOYDELL’s SHAKESPEARE. 
Vi E noticed in our laft Review that 
\ the rath number of this great and 
extenfive work is now publifhed. It con- 
tains, the following large prints, 
Pied fram (As Vou Tike It, Orlando and 
Oliver in the foreft ; engraved By Wilton, from 
Raphael, ‘Weft, fon to the Prefident of the 
Royal Academy. 
The painter has fele&ted from this de- 
Fightul Comedy the narrative of the fcene 
where Orlando refcues his brother Oliver 
from the Snake: and Lionefs.—The gro-- 
tefque oak, 
ee Wbofe boughs are mo fed 
And high iop bald with dry antiquity, 
3s, as we have been told, copied from anold 
tree in Windlor foreft ; and in this, as well 
as fome other parts ‘of the ee the 
young artift has evidently aimed at pro- 
ducing the favage grandeur of Salvator 
Rofa. The engraver has done juftice to 
the picture. 
Pinte TD. The Prifon Scene 
Hubert, in King Fobn. 
Efq. R. A. Then: 
This clear and well coloured pi&ure, 
Mr, Thew has transferred from the canvas 
. the c ? per, with his ufwal fidelity and 
fpirit. Itis very well engraved, and gives 
‘a good idea of the manner of the matter. 
Plate Til, Faiftaff and his Recruits, from 
Henry iV, Durno. Ryder. 
Mr. Durno, we believes painted this 
picture at Rome, and though it has a de- 
coith age, 
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> Detevecn Arthur and 
James Northcote, 

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that broad Englifh humour fo con{picuous 
in {ome of the pictures’ which Smirke and 
, 
giee of merit, we do not think it pofiefics’ 
fome other artifts have fo eminently dif- 
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played in the pictures they have painted 
for the Shakefpeare Gallery. 
Plate IV. The King, Scroop, Cambridge, Gray, 
from Henry V. Fufeii,— Thew. 
The talents of Mr. Fufeli are difplayed 
in the piftures now exhibiting at the Milton 
Gallery. Mr. Thew’s engraving is a 
correct copy of the original picture. 

SMALL PRINTS IN THE FOURTEENTH 
NUMBER. 
Plate I. Shakefpeare feated between the Dra- 
matic Mufe and the -Genius of Painting ; ah 
copied from the Alito Relieve in the front of 
the Shakefpeare Galk rye — J. Banks, pe 
R. A.—James Stow. 
This {culpture is poetically conceived ; 
but why fhould the rock on which the poet 
is feated, be fixed on the bafe of .a pillar. 
The rock would have formed a whole ; 
and the poet ef nature fhould have been 
reprefented on a natural rock—were it of 
adamant, his works would have a longer 
date—they muft be eternal. “In every other 
refpeét it is a claffical and elegant print, 
and does honour to the fculptor and en- 
graver. 
Plate If. Ferdinand and Miranda, lee the 
Temp f# ————W. Hamilton, Efq. R. A— 
Anker Smith. 
A clear and brilliant print. 
Orlando and Adam, from As You Like It— 
R. Stnirke, Eig. R. A.—G. Noble. 
Mr. Smirke is fo fingularly fuccetsful in 
works of humour, that we almoft regret 
feeing his pencil employed on any fubjec&t 
that does not give him an opportunity of 
: difplaying. 
