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difplaying it. This is however well con- 
ceived, correély drawn, and admirably en-. 
eraved. | ; 
Plate JIT. Rofalind, Celia, and Oliver, from 
As You Like It. R. Smirke, Efq. R. A. 
—W,C. Wilfon. 
Exquifitely engraved: the fhadow un- 
der the hat, has a very good affect. 
Plate IV. King Henry and bis train before 
"she gates of Harfleur, from Henry Vo R. 
eltall, Efq..R. A. —- James Stow. 
The fpirited picture from which this is 
very well copied, is honourable to the tafte 
“and talents of the admirabie artiit who 
painted it. 
Plate Jt. The Three Witches, from Macbeth. 
R. Weftall, Efq. R A.—James Siow. 
‘This is clafically conceived, and well 
engraved. 
Coniidering Shakefpeare’s Seven Ages as 
the fineft pictures that ever were painted, 
we have often wondered that they havenst 
been eftener transferred from the poet to 
the painter. Smirke’s feries of pi€tures 
from this beautiful defeription, which were 
exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1788, 
were purchaled by Mefirs. Boydell, and 
- are to be engraved. 
A feries, confifting of feven prints and a 
frontifpiece, engraved by Bromley, from 
dehens by Srcthart, have been publifhed in 
a thin. folio, boards, at a guinea. | 
The Schoot-boy,— 
&¢ The whining fchool-boy with his fatchel, 
And thining morning face, creeping like fnail 
Unwilingl; to fchool,” 
is admirably conceived. ‘Fhe delineation. 
of fecond childifhnels is addrefled to the 
heart, and eannot be contemplated bya feel- 
ing mind without a figh. 
Ward’s print from Sir William Bee- 
chey’s very capital picture of his Majefty, 
the prince of Wales, duke of York, &c. 
3s one of the beft mezzotintoes that has 
been lately publifhed. Tt hasthe freedom, 
fpirit, and tranfparency of the original 
picture. . 
Harriers engraved by G. Laney; from the ori- 
_ binal pi€ture painted by Hackert far Willian 
Beckford, Efq. now in the poffeffion of Mr. 
Geurge Nica, Boy dells. 
This is avery fineyprint; the piéture, 
which has an uncommon portion ef merit, 
is faithfully copied, and. the character of 
the animals, in which Hackert had great 
merit, are well underftood. 
The Rivht Hon. William Pitt, publifhed by 
F- Brydon, No. 7, Charing Crofs. 
This, as the in{cription informs us, is 
copied from the orivinal picture painted 
i.crayons by J. De Koftar, and exhibited 
at the London tavern, Auguit 14, 1799.” 
Though the name of the engraver is not 
et 
€é 
Be Retrofpe? of the Progrefs of the Fine Aris. 
[Sept 
_inferted, it isa good print. Diftinguithing 
a prime minifter’s portrait by no other cir- 
cumitance, than its having been exhibited 
at the London tavern, muft give a foreigner © 
an odd idea of the diffinétions of this 
country. : : 
Field Marfbal Count Alexander Suarrow Rime 
if, commander in chief of thé combined 
armies in ltaly, 65. C. Hampe del. 
N. Schiavonetti fculp.—publiihed for the 
Engraver. 4 
This portrait is faid to have been co- 
pied from a buft in the poffeffion of the 
Emperor, and now at Vienna. Shakefpeare 
fays of Benedick, that he looks lke a man 
and a {eldier. This portrait, whichis very 
well engraved, has certainly the latter dil. 
tinction. 
Tae Cowherd; engraved from a moft, capital 
| piGure as large as life, being the chef @ eupze 
of Paul Potter, lately in the collection of bis 
- Royal Highne/s the Prince of Orange, to whom 
this print is dedicated. Engraved by G. S. 
and |. G. Facwus, azd publifbed by Meffrs. 
Boydell he 0 
There being comparatively few pictures 
by this great mafter gives an additional 
vaiue to this print, which is very well en- 
eraved. The animals have the character 
which belongs to the painter’s country ; 
neither cowherd, cow, nor bull are Englith, 

PORTRAITS OF NAVAL OFFICERS. 
Admiral Lord Nelfon, K. B. and the Glorious 
Victory of the Nile, on the 1ft, 2d, and 3d of 
Auguft 1798, 12 which the French fleet, con= 
Sifting of 17 fail, commanded by Admiral 
‘Brucys, were defireyed or taken, excepting 
2 fips of the line and 2 frigates.” ; 
“© O God, thy Arm was here; 
And not to us, but to thy Arm alone 
Afcribe we ail?’ gine 
Tiifcribed to FF. Angesfcin, efg. and the gentlemee 
ahs have Jo humanely, firenuoufly and fuccefs= 
fully exerted themfelves for the relief of the 
qilows and orphans of thofe feamen whe 
bravely fell on the above occafin, by George 
Riley. 
The portrait from an original piciure painted by 
J. F. Abbot, Efg. The embeHifbments drawn 
and cxgraved by Piercy Roberts. 
The Admiral’s portrait, which is in an 
oval frame, refts onthe fragment of a rock 
on which lies a trophy, flags, cannon, ball, 
ram-red, &c. &c. ‘The anchor on which 
it refis, is appropriate and picturefque. 
The rock, or whatever it mutt be called, 
with the frrounding foliage of leaves, 
roots, &c. &c. is exquifitely engraved, and 
managed with great tafte,—but at the 
fame time that we faw and admired the 
merit of the artift, we could not help 
aiking 
«6 How the devil came it there 3°? _ 
and it in a degree reminded us of Swift's 
Flying 
